Crimson Wind takes its sophomore slump with dignity.    It just isn’t as geometrically pure as its predecessor.    Whereas we may consider the first an elegant triangle, Max and Alexander’s viewpoints coming to a head, here the shape that is suggested to us is more hexagonal. Alexander and Max begin to split, even as […]

Bitter Night, beyond the tremendous amount of imagination it so effortlessly demonstrates, employs one of the more emotionally stirring narrative trajectories.    Max is on the path to freedom. The true genius in the relating of this narrative is that freedom, to have any meaning at all, must struggle against obligation, and in so doing […]