"A colorful account of Castaneda’s sly triumphs": Review of AMERICAN TRICKSTER
Posted by Publishers Weekly on February 5, 2026
"Marshall paints Castaneda as a charismatic liar—he fibbed about his age, name, upbringing, military service, and marriage—who, as a writer, turned mystical abstractions into arresting stories and imagery, including, Marshall perceptively argues, oblique references to his own tortured longing to erase his personal history."