“Jeanne Thornton’s incredibly surprising and awkward fantasy novel falls into an improbable space that feels like the terrible school of Robert Walser’s Jakob Von Gunten and also the acid-laced wooded setting of Angela Carter’s novella Love. Yet Thornton’s The Dream of Doctor Bantam is pure Americana, cinematic and idly mean. It’s lush and trashy. I … Continue reading The Dream of Doctor Bantam