Animal Stories
A view on the world using a deep field of focus that renders details near and far with equal clarity. Ostensibly unrelated figures are thus united within the writer’s rich conceptual frame ... Blazingly erudite ... An expressive account ... Many of these glimpses into Kafka’s life and predilections make for pure entertainment ... It is indeed fun, and all its captives are paradoxically but fully free.
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An intensely personal endeavor ... Zambreno often stops a train of thought or inquiry before answers appear ... Animal Stories feels more intimate and more achieved in its second half ... Although in places one might wish for more assertion and conclusion from Animal Stories, Zambreno’s provisional, note-like approach to their subject is the aptest one.
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A searching, charmingly discursive meditation on zoos ... Zambreno’s reveries flit between criticism, history, and memoir—an approach well-suited to the diffuse melancholy of the zoo ... The second half of Animal Stories...lacks the immediacy of the zoo piece.
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