Tagged: jesse ball

★★☆☆☆ Written in the style of a diary, Jesse Ball’s How to Set a Fire and Why tells the story of Lucia Stanton, teenage anarchist and aspiring arsonist.  She’s halfway through high school, and...

★★★★☆ It is better to consider Jesse Ball a text-based artist than simply a novelist: his books are far from traditionally fulfilling narratives but instead captivating volumes of expressive, theoretical exploration. Dialogue-driven, A Cure...