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Bullets over the Beltway

Review of George Pelecanos' DC Noir 

by Stefan Sullivan

 The Washington Times

 

The District is hardly considered a hotbed of loners dogged by drink, Nam flashbacks, or other familiar props of noir.  In fact, the closest Beltway Man comes to the gutter is the annual roof cleaning.

The Revolution in Art
 
by Stefan Sullivan
 
The Washington Post 
 
Review Essay of Solomon Volkov's The Magical Chorus: Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn


In 1994, when naked cellists and what-not graced the stages of Moscow night clubs, the last thing Russians wanted was adult supervision, least of all the hectoring pieties of a bearded old crank by the name of Solzhenitsyn. They didn't want to hear about abuses in Chechnya, kick-backs and corruption, or repentance and salvation. What they really wanted was better telenovellas and more Ace of Base.

Soi Cowboy Nightlife Strip, Bangkok.
 
 
 
Country Music
 
Bangkok-Style
 
by Stefan Sullivan
 
The Baltimore Sun 
 
 
The petite Thai waitresses are just like Dolly Parton but without the bust or the rhinestones or the Southern accent.
 
 
 


To read “Ulysses” is a slow-burning migraine, a torture of gratuitous tangents, narrative dead-ends, and self-celebratory wordplay. It’s also considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century
— even by some who have read it.
Literary Wake for Joyce's Ulysses
by Stefan Sullivan
The Washington Times

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