The proverbial straw that breaks “A Little Life”—the Dutch stage adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s maximally tortured, seven-hundred-and-twenty-page blockbuster 2015 novel—is a truck. Not...
In 1968, the British literary quarterly Ambit, under the editorial auspices of J. G. Ballard, Edwin Brock, and Martin Bax, ran an infamous competition...
“A thing never meant a thing until it moved.” Melvin Ellington, the protagonist of Wesley Brown’s novel “Tragic Magic,” arrives at this realization,...