Marc Estrin

Fiction

The Good Doctor Guillotin

Thursday, November 5, 2020

REVIEW

This is no "historical novel." It is, rather, a fictive meditation on a contemporary conundrum using an eighteenth century drum.

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Estrin’s abrasive antihero’s commitment to battling false messiahs is morbidly compelling, and his logorrhea is occasionally dazzling. As Estrin raises a host of tough moral questions, drags...

AUTHOR ESSAY

Most people don't like cockroaches; others are equally wary of Kafka. I love both. The bugs were my playmates, growing up in the Bronx, and it was Kafka who snatched away my reading...

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