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Alan Bray
Dec 15, 20224 min read
Who Am I This Time?
In a further refinement of our journey with Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers, let’s look at some of the meanings the story contains. To...
Alan Bray
Dec 8, 20224 min read
What Did She Know, And When Did She Know It?
What is the narrational style of Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers? The first chapter begins in close third person and in simple past...
Alan Bray
Dec 1, 20225 min read
The Flamethrowers
“Valera had fallen back from his squadron and was cutting the wires of another rider’s lamp.” So begins Rachel Kushner’s 2013 novel The...