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Taylor Antrim

By Taylor Antrim 1/17/05 12:00am

A Brash, Indelicate Talent Examines Early-Midlife Drift

Home Land, by Sam Lipsyte. Picador, 240 pages, $13.

What to call male, unmarried life between the age of 27 and 40? Sunset youth? Still-coming-of-age? These are years of rejiggered aspiration, metabolic slowdown, waning cool.

Boo-hoo. It ain’t prostate cancer. It ain’t Falluja. Does anyone want to read fiction about not-quite-still-young men contemplating Read More

By Taylor Antrim 6/10/02 12:00am

Comic Hero’s Russian Roulette: A Spinning Moral Compass

The Russian Debutante’s Handbook , by Gary Shteyngart. Riverhead Books, 464 pages, $24.95.

Introducing Vladimir Girshkin, 25 years old, a Jewish immigrant born in Communist Russia, educated at a pricey Midwestern liberal-arts college, and by 1993 ensconcedinanEast Villagerailroadflat. He’s beset by girl trouble, cash trouble, and dubbed “Failurchka” (Little Failure) by his mother, a Read More