Ali Kinsella
Biographic Data
| ID | 977514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali Kinsella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Kinsella |
| SIGNATURE | KINSELLA A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Earth Gods
Earth Gods presents the early writings of Taras Prokhasko, one of Ukraine’s most prominent contemporary writers. Collected here for the first time in one book, these works span various genres yet form a single chronicle. Anna’s Other Days, Prokhasko’s first publication, testifies to the desire to free Ukrainian culture of overt influences of voices, styles, and genres that have dominated it for centuries. FM Galicia collects reflections delivered…
Ivan and Phoebe by Oksana Lutsyshyna (review)
Reviewed by: Ivan and Phoebe by Oksana Lutsyshyna Ali Kinsella OKSANA LUTSYSHYNA Ivan and Phoebe Trans. Nina Murray. Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2023. 425 pages. OKSANA LUTSYSHYNA'S Ivan and Phoebe tells the story of Ukraine's early independence through the eyes of a disillusioned romantic from the far western city of Uzhhorod. Divided into three parts, the story is told out of sequence. Part 2 is a flashback to Ivan's participation in the Revolution on…
Eternal Calendar
Two centuries had passed since the Ottomans left the Podil eyalet. They made it to Yazlivets and then vanished from the land. After their departure, Yazlivets fell into decline and turned into a large village. The vineyards tended by the Ottomans over their eleven years of rule disappeared from the hills. The melon patch was deposed: the new landowners plowed it under to plant their corn and tobacco. Rains and winds pushed around the stones of th…
B Flach! B Flach
Don't tell terrible stories—everyone here has enough of their own. Everyone here has a whole bloody sack of terrible stories, and at the bottom of the sack is a hammer the narrator uses to pound you on the skull the instant you dare not believe your ears. Or to pound you when you do believe. Not long ago I saw a tomboyish girl on Khreshchatyk Street demand money of an elderly woman, threatening to bite her and infect her with syphilis. Don't stro…
Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets
Reviewed by: Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets Ali Kinsella Yevgenia Belorusets Lucky Breaks Trans. Eugene Ostashevsky. New York. New Directions. 2022. 112 pages. LUCKY BREAKS, by Yevgenia Belorusets, is an experimental approach to the novel that neither follows a traditional story arc nor adheres to strict notions of fiction or non. Comprising thirty vignettes, the book offers glimpses of Ukraine following the 2014 Russian invasion through the…
Tanja MaljartschukA Biography of a Chance Miracle
Books in Review wraps it in caribou hide, and carries it into the future. The poems are written primarily in the vatic mode: “We will gather / the invisible wealth / lost between the cities / will chain up the monsters of history.” Many poems are incantatory as well—ritual medicine in their presentation and intent, often signaled by the use of anaphora : “spell me the name of my land / spell me the name of my mother / my eyelids have been closed …
Mesopotamia
annually in Leipzig, Germany. Haifisch’s strip The Artist was published as a collection in 2016 by Breakdown Press. The Artist is an episodic peek into the world of an artist , with themes that reemerge in Von Spatz. Von Spatz is a fictional rehabilitation center for artists in crisis, featuring such restorative features as a penguin pool, hot dog stand, and art supply store. In the opening pages, Walt Disney has a breakdown, destroying his offic…
In the Name of the Father and Other Stories by Julia & Peter Sherwood
author’s own psyche. As a youngster, Vosganian was believed to be a “child old in years” and “destined to be the family historian.” The book reads as a novel narrated both in the first and third person, but sometimes the author breaks form and speaks directly to his reader—a startling effect, to be sure. As a paean to his fellow Armenians who suffered such persecution and slaughter, the story is loaded with a myriad of names of the deceased (all …
The Year of the Comet by Antonina W. Bouis
The Borrowed manages to combine the pleasures of many types of crime story. One story will remind you of Ed McBain, another of Agatha Christie, another of Raymond Chandler’s evocations of the city. It is indeed rare for a novel demonstrating so much artistic skill, operating on many social and psychological levels, and with so much mastery of what might be called classical tropes to be so consistently entertaining. J. Madison Davis Palmyra, Virgi…
Memories
the text primarily concerns late-twentieth -century and contemporary American quilts. South African textiles form a second area of emphasis. Engagingly written extended captions accompany each image, typically addressing the quilter’s process or the work’s (often disturbing) subject matter. Yet the real significance of this book—its most powerful expression and most potent communication —lies not in words but in its images. Some featured textiles…
Herstories
Oscar Coop-Phane Zenith Hotel Ros Schwartz, tr. Arcadia Books Oscar Coop-Phane shows he is not afraid to tackle the darker sides of life as he tells the story of a prostitute and the men she serves. The novel unfolds with a sympathetic clarity that refuses to shy away from both the harsh realities of life and the bits of gentleness and hope that can be found among the shadows. Colette Shipwrecked on a Traffic Island Zack Rogow & Renée Morel, tr. …
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Herstories
Oscar Coop-Phane Zenith Hotel Ros Schwartz, tr. Arcadia Books Oscar Coop-Phane shows he is not afraid to tackle the darker sides of life as he tells the story of a prostitute and the men she serves. The novel unfolds with a sympathetic clarity that refuses to shy away from both the harsh realities of life and the bits of gentleness and hope that can be found among the shadows. Colette Shipwrecked on a Traffic Island Zack Rogow & Renée Morel, tr. …
Memories
the text primarily concerns late-twentieth -century and contemporary American quilts. South African textiles form a second area of emphasis. Engagingly written extended captions accompany each image, typically addressing the quilter’s process or the work’s (often disturbing) subject matter. Yet the real significance of this book—its most powerful expression and most potent communication —lies not in words but in its images. Some featured textiles…
The Year of the Comet by Antonina W. Bouis
The Borrowed manages to combine the pleasures of many types of crime story. One story will remind you of Ed McBain, another of Agatha Christie, another of Raymond Chandler’s evocations of the city. It is indeed rare for a novel demonstrating so much artistic skill, operating on many social and psychological levels, and with so much mastery of what might be called classical tropes to be so consistently entertaining. J. Madison Davis Palmyra, Virgi…
Mesopotamia
annually in Leipzig, Germany. Haifisch’s strip The Artist was published as a collection in 2016 by Breakdown Press. The Artist is an episodic peek into the world of an artist , with themes that reemerge in Von Spatz. Von Spatz is a fictional rehabilitation center for artists in crisis, featuring such restorative features as a penguin pool, hot dog stand, and art supply store. In the opening pages, Walt Disney has a breakdown, destroying his offic…
In the Name of the Father and Other Stories by Julia & Peter Sherwood
author’s own psyche. As a youngster, Vosganian was believed to be a “child old in years” and “destined to be the family historian.” The book reads as a novel narrated both in the first and third person, but sometimes the author breaks form and speaks directly to his reader—a startling effect, to be sure. As a paean to his fellow Armenians who suffered such persecution and slaughter, the story is loaded with a myriad of names of the deceased (all …
Tanja MaljartschukA Biography of a Chance Miracle
Books in Review wraps it in caribou hide, and carries it into the future. The poems are written primarily in the vatic mode: “We will gather / the invisible wealth / lost between the cities / will chain up the monsters of history.” Many poems are incantatory as well—ritual medicine in their presentation and intent, often signaled by the use of anaphora : “spell me the name of my land / spell me the name of my mother / my eyelids have been closed …
Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets
Reviewed by: Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets Ali Kinsella Yevgenia Belorusets Lucky Breaks Trans. Eugene Ostashevsky. New York. New Directions. 2022. 112 pages. LUCKY BREAKS, by Yevgenia Belorusets, is an experimental approach to the novel that neither follows a traditional story arc nor adheres to strict notions of fiction or non. Comprising thirty vignettes, the book offers glimpses of Ukraine following the 2014 Russian invasion through the…
B Flach! B Flach
Don't tell terrible stories—everyone here has enough of their own. Everyone here has a whole bloody sack of terrible stories, and at the bottom of the sack is a hammer the narrator uses to pound you on the skull the instant you dare not believe your ears. Or to pound you when you do believe. Not long ago I saw a tomboyish girl on Khreshchatyk Street demand money of an elderly woman, threatening to bite her and infect her with syphilis. Don't stro…
Earth Gods
Earth Gods presents the early writings of Taras Prokhasko, one of Ukraine’s most prominent contemporary writers. Collected here for the first time in one book, these works span various genres yet form a single chronicle. Anna’s Other Days, Prokhasko’s first publication, testifies to the desire to free Ukrainian culture of overt influences of voices, styles, and genres that have dominated it for centuries. FM Galicia collects reflections delivered…
Ivan and Phoebe by Oksana Lutsyshyna (review)
Reviewed by: Ivan and Phoebe by Oksana Lutsyshyna Ali Kinsella OKSANA LUTSYSHYNA Ivan and Phoebe Trans. Nina Murray. Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2023. 425 pages. OKSANA LUTSYSHYNA'S Ivan and Phoebe tells the story of Ukraine's early independence through the eyes of a disillusioned romantic from the far western city of Uzhhorod. Divided into three parts, the story is told out of sequence. Part 2 is a flashback to Ivan's participation in the Revolution on…
Eternal Calendar
Two centuries had passed since the Ottomans left the Podil eyalet. They made it to Yazlivets and then vanished from the land. After their departure, Yazlivets fell into decline and turned into a large village. The vineyards tended by the Ottomans over their eleven years of rule disappeared from the hills. The melon patch was deposed: the new landowners plowed it under to plant their corn and tobacco. Rains and winds pushed around the stones of th…
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