Elaine Margolin, Author at Book and Film Globe

Phil Klay

Featured Stories NON-FICTION

The Uncertainties of Phil Klay

May 17, 2022May 18, 2022 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Phil Klay, Redeployment, Tim O'Brien, Uncertain Ground

Ex-Marine struggles with his conscience–and the Iraq War–in a captivating book of essays

Dyer

Memoir NON-FICTION

Geoff Dyer and the Art of the Navel Gaze

May 3, 2022May 5, 2022 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Bob Dylan, Geoff Dyer, Jack Kerouac, Larry McMurtry, The Last Days of Roger Federer

The essayist sings himself and celebrates himself, but at what cost?

Knausgaard

It’s a Struggle to Get Through the New Karl Ove Knausgaard Novel

September 27, 2021September 30, 2021 Elaine Margolin 1 Comment Karl Ove Knausgaard, Linda Bostrom, My Struggle, The Morning Star, The October Child

Bring back that first-person narrator

Lina Meruane

The Cosmic Brilliance of Lina Meruane

August 16, 2021August 18, 2021 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Chile, Lina Meruane, Nervous System, Seeing Red, W.G. Sebald

A Chilean writer who defies categories

Kristin Radtke

Alone Together With Kristin Radtke

July 13, 2021March 16, 2022 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Don Draper, Imagine Wanting Only This, Kristen Radtke, loneliness, Mad Men, Princess Diana, Seek You

‘Seek You’, a brilliant new graphic memoir about “American loneliness”

Graphic Memoirs

Three Masterful New Graphic Memoirs

April 12, 2021April 13, 2021 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Alison Bechdel, And Now I Spill The Family Secrets, Fictional Father, Fun Home, graphic memoir, Joe Oldman, Margaret Kimball, the Secret to Superhuman Strength

The form reveals uncomfortable truths of which even the authors seem unaware

Solnit

Memoir NON-FICTION

Rebecca Solnit Doesn’t Explain Herself

May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence

In a new memoir, she hides behind the veil