Gavin CraigShort takes — Mille BornesIf Mille Bornes had been created in the United States, it almost certainly would not be about road racing. It would be about commuting.2 min read·Dec 28, 2020----
Gavin CraigShort takes — Russian DollIt is difficult to not compare Russian Doll to Groundhog Day, but if one pushes past the first and second iterations, it’s a comparison…2 min read·Dec 28, 2020----
Gavin CraigShort takes — Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the DeadIn 1078, St. Anselm of Canterbury formulated a peculiar proof of the existence of God. In each of our minds, Anselm argued, exists the…3 min read·Jan 17, 2020----
Gavin CraigShort takes — Out Stealing HorsesIt is difficult to be young, to see the world and to not have the tools yet to recognize it.2 min read·Jan 12, 2020----
Gavin CraigShort takes — AstroballThere are two big issues worth tackling after reading Ben Reiter’s Astroball (and ostensibly after reading Michael Lewis’s Moneyball, the…2 min read·Jan 12, 2020----
Gavin CraigShort Takes — The English PatientI don’t know why I held off this long on reading Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient. I have long adored the sumptuous visuals of…2 min read·May 9, 2019----
Gavin CraigShort takes — CrudoEveryone knows that the avant garde novelist Kathy Acker died of breast cancer in 1997 in a Mexico alternative treatment center. What…2 min read·Feb 2, 2019----
Gavin CraigShort takes — Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and NonfictionIt is not easy to write in fragments.2 min read·Jan 4, 2019----
Gavin CraigShort takes — SilenceShūsaku Endō’s novel about a Jesuit priest who clandestinely enters Japan in 1639 in the face of the prohibition of Christianity frames…2 min read·Sep 4, 2018----
Gavin CraigShort takes — What Remains of Edith FinchWhen I was in high school, I wrote a story about a boy who was in love with his cousin and ends up dying tragically when she hits him with…2 min read·Feb 1, 2018----