Tag: Benjamin Kinney
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“What’s Missing?”: Benjamin Kinney on the Quest for Identity in Shawn Rubenfeld’s THE EGGPLANT CURSE AND THE WARP ZONE
Joshua Schulman is a modern-day Pac-Man: powering his way through a path he cannot predict, all while being haunted by ghosts of his past. At the beginning of Shawn Rubenfeld’s The Eggplant Curse and the Warp Zone, Joshua is collecting more retro video games than he will ever be able to play; thinking about his…
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In the Dream House, a Graywolf Press memoir by Carmen Maria Machado, reviewed by Benjamin Kinney
One of my favorite horror tropes is the house that builds itself. Inhabitants stumble into rooms they know they’ve never visited before. There is nothing overtly menacing about the rooms, at least initially—they have the same walls and ceiling and furniture as the rest of the house. The fear is in being disoriented, as well…
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“A Cloudy Morality Tale”: Benjamin Kinney Reviews Patrick deWitt’s Undermajordomo Minor
Dating back to the old saying “Do onto others as you would have them do onto you,” there is an understanding in our society that performing good deeds is a lucrative venture. Only recently have authors and artists begun to unpack the logic of this statement: if we perform good deeds for others with the…
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Somebody Is Watching You: Benjamin Kinney Reviews Watchlist, an anthology edited by Bryan Hurt
Somebody is watching you. In fact, when you clicked on this article, a record of your visit to this page was made in a database somewhere. And decades from now, somebody a thousand miles away whom you’ve never met could verify that you’ve seen these words. You couldn’t have prevented it; this is the age…
Heavy Feather Review 