This past year was a year of big novels and long texts. It's taken a bit of time for me to come around to appreciating longer works. more »

There's a moment near the end of Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story when the protagonist Lenny Abramov (a stand in for Shteyngart veiled in little more than the super thin Onionskin jeans of the novel) and Eunice Park, Abramov's Beatrice, are pa… more »