readers of Ship Fever (National Book Award winner) and Barrett's extraordinary novel The Voyage of the Narwhal
So when the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold (or as Katharina calls her
subtle bodies of consciousness
Books Promiscuously Read illustrates the irreplaceable experience of the self that reading provides for those inclined to do it
Pool Party Trap Loop perambulates space and potential and in so doing plots a humanizing intersection
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, by Rivka Galchen readers of Ship Fever (NationalThe story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Wrttemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch. Katharina is an illiterate widow, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children, including her eldest, Johannes, who is the Imperial Mathematician and