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Kathryn Koromilas

The Demons of Athens by Vrasidas Karalis

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April 2015, no. 370
Kathryn Koromilas reviews 'The Demons of Athens' by Vrasidas Karalis

Sing, O muse, of the rage of the daemons, soulless sons of Hellenes, that have brought countless ills upon the Greeks. Sing, O Vrasidas Karalis of your descent into the Greek inferno and of the quarrels that have plagued our citizens. Sing, O brave soul, sing your reports from the Great Devastation.

Forgive my classicist sentimentality. How else to begin a r ...

The Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies by Bernard Cohen

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February 2014, no. 358
Kathryn Koromilas reviews 'The Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies' by Bernard Cohen


Above the line’, a narrator begins a story. At a specific moment in time, a specific fictional character appears and something is about to happen. ‘Below the line’, another narrator begins a different story, a story in notes, footnotes, ‘citational backup’ for the story ‘above’. You have begun reading Bernard Cohen’s new novel: a work in story and notes, a game, a play of genre, a performance.

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