Magical Realism in the “Pages of Mourning” by Diego Gerard Morrison

Diego Gerard Morrison’s second novel, Pages of Mourning, may call Mexico its mainhome, but its first scene is a literal writer’s nightmare in a New York City coffee shop. Aureliano Más, the novel’s rarely sober, often haunted, and slyly named protagonist, sees dead people. It happens when he’s asleep and even, sometimes, when he’s awake and…

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A Mortuary Make-Up Artist’s Guide to Grief and the Body: Ella Baxter’s “New Animal”

A review of Ella Baxter’s new novel, “New Animal”

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