Tag: Adam Camiolo

  • Dr. No, a satirical spy novel by Percival Everett, reviewed by Adam Camiolo

    Dr. No, a satirical spy novel by Percival Everett, reviewed by Adam Camiolo

    Dr. No, the satirical spy novel by Percival Everett, is uncommonly funny, ridiculously smart, and has a serious score to settle. It is, in short, quite good. The book follows the misadventures of Professor Wala Kitu, a theoretical mathematician whose name is Tagalog and Swahili respectively for Nothing Nothing. Wala specializes in Nothing, an abstract…

  • Book Review: Adam Camiolo on Boundless as the Sky by Dawn Raffel

    Book Review: Adam Camiolo on Boundless as the Sky by Dawn Raffel

    You need humans to do what humans can’t do. Dawn Raffel’s newest work of compact prose and deep imagination, titled Boundless as the Sky, is a sincerely humane response to one of postmodernism’s most abstract masterpieces. It’s a powerful story. The book is a web of vignettes directly patterned after Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and…