Tag: Allegra Hyde

  • Review: Nick Sweeney on Of This New World by Allegra Hyde

    Review: Nick Sweeney on Of This New World by Allegra Hyde

    All writers want to create new worlds. Good writers want to explore new worlds. Great writers want to expose new worlds. In Of This New World, the readers are exposed to twelve beautiful worlds and the inhabitants who survive in them. Allegra Hyde has her fingers on the pulse of today and the particular patterns…

  • The Deep Zoo, short essays by Rikki Ducornet, reviewed by Allegra Hyde

    The Deep Zoo, short essays by Rikki Ducornet, reviewed by Allegra Hyde

    “It is the work of the writer to move beyond the simple definitions or descriptions of things,” states Rikki Ducornet in her new essay collection The Deep Zoo. To her, the unmapped world is of greater interest, as it presents an opportunity “to bring a dream to life through the alchemy of language; to move…

  • How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales, a story collection by Kate Bernheimer, reviewed by Allegra Hyde

    How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales, a story collection by Kate Bernheimer, reviewed by Allegra Hyde

    In the title story of Kate Bernheimer’s latest collection, How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales, we encounter a universe where dolls talk and little girls receive trays of lollipops and jelly beans as nighttime snacks. A universe, it would seem, of childhood fantasy. And yet, as with the other stories in the…

  • The Static Herd, a novel by Beth Steidle, reviewed by Allegra Hyde

    The Static Herd, a novel by Beth Steidle, reviewed by Allegra Hyde

    How do we write about death? Explain the inexplicable without sounding overwrought, cliché, false? Perhaps we don’t. Perhaps we avoid it, dance around it, mask it in metaphor until any real substance is lost. If this is the case, we might take direction from Beth Steidle, whose recent novel, The Static Herd, addresses the paradox…