A Metaphysical Mountain in “Ascension” – Chicago Review of Books

A Metaphysical Mountain in “Ascension” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In Nicholas Binge’s Ascension, a mountain of nearly unimaginable size appears suddenly in the middle of the ocean, its sides plunging steeply into the sea, its mysterious peak looming unattainably in the clouds, nearly 10,000 feet higher than Mount Everest. The mountain stuns physicist Harold Tunmore, not just because of its sudden materialization, but … Read more

Folk Tales within Folk Tales in “When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain” – Chicago Review of Books

Folk Tales within Folk Tales in “When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] A general move that most fantasy has made, perhaps most fiction has made, is to zoom in, to show more, to unpack rather than summarize. Where a fairy tale or earlier fiction might just say “they traveled for a month,” the more modern approach is likely to tell you what that felt like, what … Read more