Jacob Brogan

3 weeks ago | infobae.com | Jacob Brogan

Cuando les diga que la mejor novela que he leído este año está escrita en una sola frase que se extiende a lo largo de 400 páginas, interrumpida solo por algún punto y coma, es casi seguro que pensarán que estoy adoptando el truco literario porque sí. Y, sin embargo, ese libro -Herscht 07769, del genio húngaro László Krasznahorkai- no es ni un truco experimental ni una locura pretenciosa.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan

Alison Bechdel makes a welcome return to fiction in ‘Spent’ (washingtonpost.com) Alison Bechdel makes a welcome return to fiction in ‘Spent’ By Jacob Brogan 2025052012300000 No artistic border is more poorly defended or muzzily mapped than the wavy line that separates self-consciousness from self-parody. Too many of the greats stumble unintentionally across the divide, and when they do they rarely return.

1 month ago | pressherald.com | Jacob Brogan

A note of unease runs through Antonio Muñoz Molina’s novel “Your Steps on the Stairs” from its opening line. “I’ve moved to this city to wait for the end of the world,” Muñoz Molina’s narrator tells us. It’s not his apocalypticism that troubles — who among us isn’t thinking eschatologically these days?

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan

A man tries to build a world for his wife. Will she ever arrive? (washingtonpost.com) A man tries to build a world for his wife. Will she ever arrive? By Jacob Brogan 2025042511000000 A note of unease runs through Antonio Muñoz Molina's novel "Your Steps on the Stairs" from its opening line. "I've moved to this city to wait for the end of the world," Muñoz Molina's narrator tells us.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan

This sci-fi novel boldly imagines how we might escape authoritarianism (washingtonpost.com) This sci-fi novel boldly imagines how we might escape authoritarianism By Jacob Brogan 2025040713000000 Philosophical novels almost inevitably stumble into a welcome paradox: Philosophy, at least since Aristotle, has been primarily dictatorial, the product of a single speaker laying out a set of claims at their own pace.