The Last Non-Performative Reader - by John W Schneider

Stop All the Clocks - Noah Kumin; Arcade Press; 240pp; 2025

This week’s post, our ninth following our review of Kevin Honold’s Molly, features Noah Kumin’s Stop All the Clocks, released this year by Arcade Publishing. Started in the late 1980s by Richard and Jeannette Seaver, Arcade has published “literary giants such as Samuel Beckett, Leo Tolstoy, Octavio Paz, and E. M. Cioran alongside newer voices such as Andreï Makine and Ismail Kadare.” Since 2010, Arcade has been an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, an independent house with a reputation for publishing conspiratorial, controversial, and cancelled books. You can read a little more about…

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