Saints and Sinners in “Almost Deadly, Almost Good” – Chicago Review of Books

Saints and Sinners in “Almost Deadly, Almost Good” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In her new collection of short stories, Almost Deadly, Almost Good: Sins and Virtues, Alice Kaltman crafts a wicked and ribald catechism from the vices and redemptions of contemporary America and its litany of temptations. Neither morality tale nor fable, the collection’s fourteen stories forge hardened hearts and tempered spirits in those crucibles of … Read more

Fables for Our Time in Maya Sonenberg’s “Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters” – Chicago Review of Books

Fables for Our Time in Maya Sonenberg’s “Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In her essay “Fairy Tale Is Form, Form Is Fairy Tale,” Kate Bernheimer balks at critics who pan fairy tales, fabulism, and other genres where magic insinuates itself in everyday experience. Bernheimer instead points out that the fairy tale’s grimness and infinite possibilities energize even writers of literary realism and every fiber of their … Read more