Dreams, Love, and Trauma
“She stays at the desk in the dim bedroom almost all of the time”: so begins “Dreams, Love, and Trauma,” a short story by G.H. McConkey and an effective illustration of how a writer’s worst critic might just be herself.
Tag: self-reflexive fiction
A universe between the covers
Cerebral, inventive, challenging, and deeply, well, bookish, the “whole novel glows with similar interplays of similarly repeated words and issues, ones that touch on the most fundamental nature of the human experience—truth and knowledge, beauty (especially of music), love, and, perhaps most fundamentally, happiness.”—Theo Dombrowski reviews The Book of Records, by Madeleine Thien (Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2025) $36.95 / 9781039009561