"The Book of Lamentations"-5

A review of a "new dystopian novel in the classic mode takes the form of a dictionary of madness" masquerading as a review of the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). The review, like the book it reviews, dark, brilliant, surreal, and so, so human. 

Vincent van Gogh Corridor in the Asylum (1889) 

 The review in the New Inquiry appears here

--Anthony Napoli