Rochester’s hold on the spirit world is as firm as the ghosts who allegedly inhabit the netherworld are not. Most of it has to do with the Fox sisters, three 19th-century women, originally from the ...

Hubert Haddad, trans. from the French by Alyson Waters. Yale Univ., $16 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-0-300-22436-8 In this sharp and provocative novel from Haddad (Rochester Knockings), Cédric Erg is a ...

Opium Poppy by Hubert Haddad leaves one numb long after one has finished reading it. It is a profoundly disturbing narrative I was in a state of shock, even an hour after finishing reading Hubert ...

If you ask someone in Rochester, N.Y., about Open Letter Books, you’re likely to get a blank stare. This has never sat well with Chad Post, the publisher of Open Letter, one of the country’s only ...