George Bernard Shaw once said that the privilege of joking in public should only be granted to people who know thoroughly what they are joking about. I thought of his words as I devoured Endling, the ...

What should writers do when catastrophic world events intrude on the composition of their work? The question lies at the heart of Maria Reva’s “Endling,” a novel of Ukraine before and during the 2022 ...

Maria Reva’s Endling is a form-breaking tale of three kinds of survival: the survival of its titular endling, the final specimen of a soon-to-be extinct species of snails; the survival of her ...

Maria Reva's virtuosic novel starts out as a straightforward story about a Ukrainian biologist, but morphs into a comic take on war, the... 'Endling' is a shape-shifting debut that takes on heavy ...