Praise for The Man Who Would Not Bow
…Nine stories that often explore the links between the lusty and the high-minded and that make an argument for their being not opposing values but flip sides of a coin…. Smart, complex stories…that never fail to hold the reader’s interest.
Kirkus Reviews
Askold Melnyczuk fascinates me with his cartography, mapping the contours of consciousness and spirit across the centuries. The spectrum of his sensibilities always delights and seduces, or provokes and puzzles. Like his Ukrainian forbearer Gogol, Melnyczuk can summon forth the grotesqueries of continental mysticism, and switch lenses to deliver his readers into a contemporary DeLillo-esque realm of cold but metaphysically ambiguous realism. He’s a literary chameleon, and irresistible.
Bob Shacochis