Books January 2016 The pickup artist by Stefan Beck A review of Take a Girl Like You (NYRB Classics) by Kingsley Amis.
Fiction chronicle November 2015 Bad luck & trouble by Stefan Beck On Quicksand, by Steve Toltz; Paris Nocturne, by Patrick Modiano; The State We’re In, by Ann Beattie; and The Night Stages, by Jane Urquhart.
Letter from Hudson October 2015 Getting away from it all by Stefan Beck Time on an island in Hudson, New York, occasions some musings on the greatest shipwreck survivors in literature.
Fiction chronicle May 2015 The story of the grail by Stefan Beck Reviews of The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro; John the Pupil, by David Flusfeder; Know Your Beholder, by Adam Rapp & Notes from a Dead House, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.