Tag: Nora E. Webb

  • Trimming England, a satirical almanac of terror by M.J. Nicholls, reviewed by Nora E. Webb

    Trimming England, a satirical almanac of terror by M.J. Nicholls, reviewed by Nora E. Webb

    Trimming England, M.J. Nicholls’ latest work of satire, is a brilliant piece of character work. Not so much plot-based, the novel centers around one idea: “In 2021, British Prime Minister Frank Oakface elected to rid each English county of its most irritating citizen.” Those voted out by their community members receive sentences of varying lengths…

  • Newer Testaments, a novel by Philip Brunetti, reviewed by Nora E. Webb

    Newer Testaments, a novel by Philip Brunetti, reviewed by Nora E. Webb

    Beautiful, haunting, and decidedly subversive, Newer Testaments invites us to explore the metaphysical, the hypothetical, and the hallucinatory. It follows an unnamed narrator in his journey of escape—first from the Facility to which he admits himself, and then (yet also simultaneously), from the compelling need to write his continuation of “The Revelation of John.” Our…