Chris Kerr reviews Los Alamos Mon Amour in CultureWars:

For me, the city of Florence means the Renaissance. For Simon Barraclough, it means Hannibal. In his debut collection, Los Alamos Mon Amour, culture as we know it has been annihilated by an atom bomb, specifically one designed at the eponymous US laboratory. What remains is a whirlwind of culture and entertainment: Buffy the Vampire Slayer stabs Ezra Pound with a stake, Ted Hughes has imdb in a headlock and suddenly here’s Einstein (who started all of this off) flattening them all with his Principle of Relativity…

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