Tag: Pedro Ponce

  • Cavanaugh, a new novel by Joshua Kornreich, reviewed by Pedro Ponce

    Cavanaugh, a new novel by Joshua Kornreich, reviewed by Pedro Ponce

    Is it too soon to revisit the Brett Kavanaugh story? I wondered this as I became immersed in the world of Cavanaugh, the latest from novelist Joshua Kornreich. Last year’s American Crime Story: Impeachment (2021) proves that waiting pays off when adapting stories from the headlines. More than two decades later, Ryan Murphy’s retelling of…

  • The Reincarnations by Nathan Elias, a story collection from Montag Press, reviewed by Pedro Ponce

    The Reincarnations by Nathan Elias, a story collection from Montag Press, reviewed by Pedro Ponce

    The elevator pitch version of this review might read something like “Twin Peaks meets Raymond Carver.” In his debut story collection, Nathan Elias reveals the strangeness just beneath the surface of milieus often associated with gritty realism: hotels, hospital rooms, “a bar in Seminole Heights called Hole in the Wall.” These nondescript locales are the…