The Celestial Hunter

A spellbinding modern magus . . . he writes like a poet, not a professor, in glinting, enigmatic nuggets of narrative. At a moment when atavistic kinds of peril, awe and terror seem close at hand, it feels no great stretch to share Calasso's core belief that "the gods always return"

Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times

Beguiling, captivating, vital ... Informed by myth, this damning exploration of man's detachment from the animal world is ninth in a staggeringly learned series

Stuart Jeffries, Guardian

The Celestial Hunter is an "initiation through the book", speculative but capable of changing how you see things

Dominic Green, Spectator

Calasso is especially good at describing the characters of myth and legend with a novelist's omniscient authority ... leaves you feeling not out of your depth, but smarter and better read

A. E. Stallings, New York Times