Matthew Jakubowski is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and has served as a judge for the Best Translated Book Award. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Kirkus Reviews, Bookforum.com, and The Millions, among others. He lives in West Philadelphia.
KR Reviews
With Bloody Precision: Caren Beilin’s The University of Pennsylvania
In Caren Beilin’s novel The University of Pennsylvania, the place is no paradise.
Summer 2015
Beauty, Love, and Risk: The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson
In Tove Jansson’s fiction, people just won’t leave each other alone. Good intentions or bad, they can’t seem to help themselves.
Summer 2014
Self-Portrait with Chokehold: Joanna Howard’s Foreign Correspondent
Readers who enjoyed the ornate fables and finely turned prose of Joanna Howard’s debut story collection On the Winding Stair are in for something new with her latest book, the novella Foreign Correspondent.