For LARB, I reviewed Helen DeWitt’s short story collection Some Trick (New Directions, 2018). My review contextualizes the collection in DeWitt’s larger career and thinks through her simultaneous representation and engagement with her characterization as a “brilliant” writer. Read it here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/odds-and-ends-fictive-probability-in-helen-dewitts-some-trick/