Vox: BEN CARMICHAEL The Verity La Forum was conducted by Alec Patric from July 2011 to December 2011 Forum Question: A New Archaeology I’m more inclined to think online/digital media …
A Worthy Mirror of Reality: Tim Richards' Thought Crimes
Review by Ben Carmichael There are those who maintain that the principal aesthetic/moral aim of literature is ‘to hold a mirror up to reality’. Tim Richards’ Thought Crimes certainly does …
Tim Richards' Thought Crimes reviewed by Ben Carmichael
There are those who maintain that the principal aesthetic/moral aim of literature is ‘to hold a mirror up to reality.’ Tim Richards’ Thought Crimes certainly does this, because a mirror …
The White Silence after the Full-stop: Jean-Christophe Valtat's 03
Review by Ben Carmichael The unnamed narrator of Jean-Christophe Valtat’s 03 is a seething mind. His thoughts, which comprise the novella’s uninterrupted, paragraphless soliloquy, obsess over such topics typical to …
03 by Jean-Christophe Valtat (Ben Carmichael)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010 Translated from the French by Mitzi Angel The unnamed narrator of Jean-Christophe Valtat’s 03 is a seething mind. His thoughts, which comprise the novella’s uninterrupted, …
The Antique (Ben Carmichael)
Dust. It settles on the old things. It drifts through the air in a thin shroud, a grey curtain across the eyes. Slowly, it settles. On the tables, the chairs, …