Archive for June, 1994
- Banana Yoshimoto’s “Lizard” • June 28, 1994
"Bananamania" seems to be winding down as a cultural phenomenon, and judging by the vapid contents of Banana Yoshimoto's latest short story collection, "Lizard," that's a good thing.
- E.L. Doctorow’s “The Waterworks” • June 27, 1994
"The Waterworks," more than an historical fiction in the city which also provided Doctorow the setting for his acclaimed novels "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate," is a suspenseful mystery and a sweeping philosophical analysis of humanity's relation to science and religion as well.
- Karel Čapek’s “Tales from Two Pockets” • June 20, 1994
To call the forty-eight short stories of Karel Čapek collected and newly translated in "Tales from Two Pockets" among the greatest the mystery genre has ever produced only begins to tell the tale.
- T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “Without a Hero” • June 1, 1994
T. Coraghessan Boyle is a good novel writer who's certainly proven that he can work wonders when he sets his mind to it, but his short stories are a completely hit-or-miss affair. "Without a Hero" sits alongside Boyle's other works as an exercise in unkempt imagination desperately in need of discipline.
