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Articles by Tim Wirkus
Natalie Brown: Something novel for summer
Odds are high that most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have never read a novel featuring a Latter-day Saint character that feels consistent with their experience. Mainstream media portrayals of Latter-day Saints, such as Jon Krakauer's " Under the Banner of Heaven" (2003) and its FX/Hulu series adaptation (2022), typically profit by presenting Latter-day Saints through the familiar stereotypes that Mormons are violent, naive, repressed or duplicitous.
Origin Stories: On the Value of Comics
I was six years old when I pulled a reprint of "Amazing Spider-Man No. 1" from the rack at Michigan News, a rumpled newsstand at the heart of the city where I grew up. I still have the comic, dated April 1982; it's tattered and almost worthless, but as a talisman it can transport me across time. Suddenly, I'm there. I'm shorter than the counter. The man at the register rings the sale. The world is vast and I'm unsure of how it works, but this comic is mine, and that's enough.
Book Review on Paul Rawlin's No Lie Like Love: Stories
Recommended Citation Wirkus, Tim (2008) "Book Review on Paul Rawlin's No Lie Like Love: Stories," Inscape: Vol. 28 : No. 2 , Article 18. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol28/iss2/18
Our Obsession with Lost Books, And How They Often Disappoint
The winter I was in second grade, I remember spending nearly every recess period tromping around the snow-covered play yard while my friend Tyson Anderson recounted, in visceral detail, the plots of movies I wasn’t allowed to see. To be clear, my parents weren’t inordinately strict on this front. We’re talking movies like Terminator II or Misery, or The Lost Boys, titles which, in all honesty, I’m not sure I would have enjoyed much as a seven-year-old.
The Infinite Future
“Stupendously inventive and rewarding…The second half of Wirkus’ tale is…a sci-fi epic which echoes Battlestar Galactica and the fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin in equal measure…Especially well suited for fans of Jonathan Lethem and Ron Currie, this work announces Wirkus as one of the most exciting novelists of his generation.” —Booklist (starred review) “Wirkus crafts two gripping sagas into one gloriously captivating tome.”—Paste “Roberto Bolaño meets Ursula K.
5 Novels Featuring Obsessed Bookworms on the Hunt - Unbound Worlds
In the days following the Spanish Civil War, a book dealer takes his son Daniel to the “cemetery of lost books”: a secret repository of books lost to time. Daniel is allowed to select one book, but must agree to protect it for the rest of his life. Daniel chooses The Shadow of the Wind, a novel by a mysterious author named Julián Crax.
An Infinite Maze: On the Many Voices of the Dublin Murder Squad
An Infinite Maze: On the Many Voices of the Dublin Murder Squad It’s a testament to the meticulous brilliance of Jorge Luis Borges that a summary of his story “The Garden of Forking Paths” might run longer than the story itself, and only fitting, given the narrative’s central question: How do you build an infinite labyrinth? It’s an even greater testament to Borges’s brilliance that the story, with deadpan audacity, provides an answer.
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