Max Callimanopulos
@mca11imanopulos
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A sleeping antelope incised on rock up to 10,000 years ago at Tin Taghirt, Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria
"[Pan] is as funny and unconventional as his memoir was; it’s a book one might do well to steal language and ideas from… Clune’s language, as Lerner hinted, is undeniably lovely and his ideas worth lingering over.” —Oxford Review of Books the-orb.org/post/the-seaso…
Gideon’s short story is great
My short story "They Call it Spirit Airlines" in @OxReviewofBooks. It is about the hidden costs of discount flights. the-orb.org/post/they-call…
Many are calling Michael Clune's Pan the "book of the summer." I reviewed it for the @OxReviewofBooks the-orb.org/post/the-seaso…
I reviewed John Gregory Dunne’s funny memoir of a sad summer in Vegas @LAReviewofBooks @McNallyEditions lareviewofbooks.org/article/absolu…
I reviewed @LucasESchaefer's "The Slip" (@SimonBooks) for @villagevoice. Great book. Very funny. villagevoice.com/portnoys-under…
CF Ramuz wrote a weird novel about the sun crashing into the Earth. Here’s my review of it, on @3ammagazine 3ammagazine.com/3am/into-the-s…
Here’s a review I wrote, now up on @adroitjournal theadroitjournal.org/2025/06/11/a-r…
“I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.” ―Don DeLillo
I wrote about the artistic aspects of restaurant menus for @readliberties. libertiesjournal.com/online-article…
50s - Invisible Man 60s - The Golden Notebook 70s - A Bend in the River 80s - The Transit of Venus 90s- A Suitable Boy 00s - A Naked Singularity 10s - Go Went Gone 20s - The Most Secret Memory of Men
Favorite novels of each post-war decade! 50s - Pedro Paramo 60s - Herzog 70s - The Obscene Bird of Night 80s - Beloved 90s - Mason & Dixon 00s - Seiobo There Below 10s - Counternarratives
"Marooned in England or adrift in East Africa, Gurnah's silent, haunted men often realize that their past is more vivid and real than their present." @maximilien1212 reviews Nobel laureate Abuldrazak Gurnah's "Theft." lareviewofbooks.org/article/leavin…
On Abdulrazak Gurnah’s new novel Theft, for the @LAReviewofBooks lareviewofbooks.org/article/leavin…
Warm,friendly smell of healthy cattle,mixed with freshness of sandy wind - beneath deep shadow of a Neem Tree Blissful sight from a tobba deep inside Cholistan desert
Beautiful photo from NTV Kenya
Pope Francis rested well all night, Vatican says ow.ly/HhCW50V5Uhb