In “The Weird and the Eerie,” the cultural critic Mark Fisher made a distinction between the two titular literary modes. The weird disrupts our conception of the real; its overriding sensation ...

Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise is a wonderful, enigmatic novel that effortlessly blends the commonplace and the extraordinary. A true-to-life narrative about a woman learning to navigate ...

There’s Borges and Bolaño, Kafka and Cortázar, Modiano and Murakami, and now Laura van den Berg. The acclaimed author of two story collections and a novel, van den Berg has always been good ...

The stories in Laura van den Berg's I Hold a Wolf by the Ears are exquisite. They're tiny, uncanny morsels about broken women and mysterious things that possess a literary umami that falls ...

Laura van den Berg’s latest novel, “State of Paradise,” is both a work of speculative fiction and a pandemic novel — the most recursively accursed or consolingly changeless (take your pick ...