Strange Bodies

A poor Samuel Johnson scholar sits wrongly imprisoned, the victim of a Silicon Valley conspiracy.  Even worse, he’s been dead for months.  Marcel Theroux’s surrealist ghost story ably echoes the works of Julio Cortazar and Stephen King.

“Thurgood’s Coming”

February 12: “Southern juries might be stacked against blacks, and the judges might be biased, but Thurgood Marshall was demonstrating in case after case that their word was not the last.”