Robert P. Baird
And now we may need to lie down
“Mass extinction events seem to occur about once every 26 million years…. One theory is that this is the interval between instances of the solar system, rotating around the centre of our galaxy, passing through one of the galactic spiral arms…”
— Nick Wray, LRB Letters (11.20.25)
Anthony Lane on Bunny Lang is, as they say, self-recommending. (I’m tempted to say that Anthony Lane on any subject fits that bill.) If you need a push, look at the judo he does with “chestnut” here, in a riff on Lang’s “Caraway seeds on my tongue:”
What stirs the last phrase is an impatience with cliché. We are so accustomed to hearing sex extolled as “spicy” that it needs someone as brisk as Lang to break the habit. You can imagine her asking, “Well, what spice? Was it a nutmeg kiss, or a cinnamon quickie, or what?” Caraway gets rid of the old chestnut.
The Washington Post named The Nimbus one of its “50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025.”
A maxim, a motto, a borrowed manifesto.
A wonderful review from Benjamin J. Dueholm in The Christian Century.
Ellen O’Connell Whittet reviews The Nimbus in America magazine.
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