Fantine's Folly
Traversing both the gentrified pockets and gangstaland of Los Angeles, as well as the sugar-cane fields and sweltering swampland of Louisiana, Susan Straight’s new novel is a complex work of…
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Ethics and the Movies
What do Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull, and Michaelangelo Antonini’s L’avventura have in common—apart from being uncontestable classics of the…
Not So Different After All
Dorothy Allison, grand dame of Southern storytelling, once said that while everyone may have a story to tell, “most people shouldn’t try to write it.” This advice might sound harsh,…
Tell Me a Story of Deep Delight
In her Chapter 16 review of the 2009 volume of New Stories from the South, Maria Browning notes that Southern literature must “be understood as something more than a collection…
A Captured Mind
On a bleak winter’s day in the Thousand Islands region of New York, Carol Seaborg is visiting a lakeside lighthouse with her six-year-old child when she sees an older woman…
Putting the Fan in Fantasy
In the beginning, there was Spider-Man. As a boy, Scott Christian Sava loved Spider-Man comics, and though that obsession gave way in time to Conan the Barbarian, the Narnia books,…
