Colin Asher
Colin Asher is the author of Never a Lovely so Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren (W.W. Norton, 2019), a literary biography written as a work of creative nonfiction. His writing has appeared in the Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, and many other publications.
11 entries by Colin Asher
Last Night in Brighton
By Massoud Hayoun
At loose ends, a gay Arab Jew seeks, well, something in Brooklyn.
The Pages: A Novel
By Hugo Hamilton
A multilayered tale of cruelty and redemption told through the eyes of a century-old book.
A Country for Dying
By Abdellah Taïa; translated by Emma Ramadan
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This loosely constructed, vivid immigrant tale will both challenge and reward persevering readers.
Death in Her Hands
By Ottessa Moshfegh
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A deeply affecting story about solitude and lost chances.
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By Hanif Abdurraqib
A brilliant, multilayered ode to African American genius.
Notes from an Apocalypse
By Mark O’Connell
A wise meditation on social collapse and those preoccupied with the thought of it.
A Country for Dying: A Novel
By Abdellah Taïa; translated by Emma Ramadan
This loosely constructed, vivid immigrant tale will both challenge and reward persevering readers.
How the author wove disparate threads into a single, expansive work on American mysticism.
Death in Her Hands: A Novel
By Ottessa Moshfegh
A deeply affecting story about solitude and lost chances.
A wise meditation on social collapse and those preoccupied with the thought of it.
The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934
By Carl Rollyson
This chronicle of the problematic icon is well researched, sincere...and arguably unnecessary.