David O'Neill

May 8, 2023

On Emma Cline's 'The Guest'

Critics were suspicious when Emma Cline shot to fame in 2016, at age twenty-seven, with her debut novel, The Girls. James Wood’s New Yorker review exemplifies...
May 1, 2023

On 'Chain-Gang All-Stars'

Every time I turn on the television, I wonder if George Saunders is orchestrating the programming from afar. But then I realize that even his zany stories couldn’t approximate...