Ken Kalfus, author of the new novel "Equilateral," has woven a tale that is both fantastical and believable. He's done it not just with an expansive imagination and sharp writing skills, but a ...

Whenever I hear people lamenting the fundamental irrationality of human beings, as is increasingly common these days, I like to recall the fact that we currently have a robot the size of a Land Rover ...

Equilateral is a weird little novel, but any reader familiar with Ken Kalfus expects his writing to go off-road. Kalfus wrote one of the best and certainly the least sentimental novels about New York ...

Ken Kalfus, author of the new novel “Equilateral,” has woven a tale that is both fantastical and believable. He’s done it not just with an expansive imagination and sharp writing skills, but a ...

In the remote Egyptian desert towards the end of the 19th century, almost a million Arab peasants are digging a giant equilateral triangle. It is swelteringly hot and back-breaking work: each side of ...

That so much fiction has lately been set in Victorian times may owe something to a desire to correct the period’s prejudices and blind spots, whether sexual (as in the novels of Sarah Waters) or ...