"What Borges is to metafiction, Madrox is to metarealism--one of its most inventive and audacious authors; except, instead of being our generation's blind Tiresias, Madrox is perhaps our seeing Oedipus, ready to unravel the mystery of the Sphinx and free us from the plague of human ignorance."
--Joaquim Maria Nivola, associate professor and director of metareal studies, Fenwick University

"The aestheticization of violence is so central to Western literature (Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky) that it is hard to find a single great work for which it does not serve as the leitmotif. J. P. Madrox has learned well from his predecessors, though perhaps at the expense of his characters, many of whom suffer the slings of existing only in the pages of his beautiful, macabre yet exceedingly charming books."
--Jamieson de Quincey, editor-in-chief, Senex Press

"Like all gifted novelists, J. P. Madrox has a talent for suffering--for witnessing it, for enduring it, for redeeming it with meaning and beauty. But, like no other novelist since Plato, he has created in Jean-Luc Beauchard a philosopher protagonist so vivid and beguiling that he seems to scorn the pages in which we find him as images of images, shadows of shadows, mere sensible particulars, altogether less real than the failed priest himself."
--William J. Hendel, co-editor of misReading Plato: Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask