As of 1996 Butler's publications include eight novels, a prize-winning collection of short stories, and numerous contributions to respected journals and reviews. His defining themes are the suffering that results from thwarted desire and the intimacy tha...
I recommend two books of short fiction, a memoir, and a study of the biological determinants of history. Not exactly light reading, but perhaps something to settle down with after returning from the shore. An easy sort of joke would link Kafka to...
Byline: JULIE HALE TABLOID DREAMS ROBERT OLEN BUTLER Henry Holt. 203 pp. $22.50. With his brilliant new book of stories, Tabloid Dreams, Robert Olen Butler takes readers into a literary twilight zone where irrationality and reason walk hand in hand,...
In politics, as in any other form of battle, it’s always a good idea to do whatever your enemy would least like you to do. That basic rule of thumb seems to have been forgotten by many of New York’s politicians and much of...
