Sam Elkin was driving home from Melbourne Airport in August 2018 when he was suddenly flung forward in his seat. He was on the way back home from a "no-expense-spared" trip around Europe.

Such categories didn’t exist in his day. Editors Sam Elkin, Yves Rees and contributor Sasja Sydek described how they wanted to move away from harrowing and traumatic stories, important as they ...

Behind all this shaggy-dog spiritual intrigue is God -- like all Elkin characters, a continually mugging, intensely verbal, and deeply sympathetic ne'er do well. Sam Lipsyte, the author of the ...