Brian Finney is a professor emeritus in English at California State University, Long Beach. He has published seven books, including a critical biography of Christopher Isherwood that won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for nonfiction. Terrorized: How the War on Terror Affected American Culture and Society, was published in 2011. His latest book published 2019 is Money Matters: A Novel.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Channeling Cervantes: On Salman Rushdie’s “Quichotte”
Brian Finney reviews “Quichotte,” the latest novel from Salman Rushdie....
Irony: Truth’s Disguise
Irony states the opposite of what it intends to mean. But what if no one spots it and takes the ironic statement literally?...
The David Mitchell Übernovel: Brian Finney Reviews “Slade House”
Like all Mitchell's novels, "Slade House" belongs to the same Übernovel he has been constructing from the beginning while it remains a self-contained unit....
Adding to the Übernovel: Why David Mitchell Does What He Does
A call to reviewers to drop elitist prejudices and see Mitchell’s appropriation of fantasy genres for what it is....
Taking on Hammer Horror: Jeanette Winterson’s “The Daylight Gate”
The Pendle with trial is fodder for Jeanette Winterson's addictive new page-turner....
A Stupefied Outpouring of the Life: Richard Bradford's "Martin Amis"
On Negative Reviews LET ME START with a few riders. I am not in the habit of writing negative reviews. In ...
Literary Lout: Martin Amis Once Again Faces the Critics
A look at his past work and his newest novel, 'Lionel Asbo: State of England'...
Perfectly Plausible Worlds
He is both a post-national and post-postmodern writer on the one hand and quite simply a page-turner on the other....
