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J.S. Breukelaar’s “American Monster”: Demons Are Human Too – Sort Of

by Seb Doubinsky

It is said that even in the Before there were those who fell. The curse of their fall was to become Brainworlds. Sentient and eternally celestial, they were unable to generate or sustain life. They were not so much planets as conscious Wholes. Thus begins American Monster, J.S. Breukelaar’s monstrous novel about a quest for reunion, […]

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The Southern Reach Trilogy and the Question of Fiction

by Seb Doubinsky

It is impossible, in my eyes, to read Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy without thinking of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. It is not so much because of the similar tropes – the exploration team, the perception problems, the deep hole, etc. – but because of a deeper, darker link, which only becomes obvious once […]

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