Book Review Online The Baby in the Bathwater By Ashley Cullina A previously unpublished novel from cult author Katherine Dunn is blissfully unaware of the chaos it creates.
Book Review Online What Sort of Woman Would I Be if I Wasn’t Thrilled for Her By Philippa Snow A pitch-black debut novel slices into plastic surgery and influencer culture with healthy ambivalence and sweetly melancholic prose.
Book Review Online This Invented Nation By Federico Perelmuter A sprawling epic built equally of reality and literature, Cărtărescu's Solenoid bucks the trends of the contemporary novel.
Book Review Online Prisoner of Love By Jenny Wu A new vision for community emerges in João Gilberto Noll’s Hugs and Cuddles.
Book Review Online Social Justice Fanfic By Kathy Chow Contemporary novelists are trying too hard to teach us a lesson. Ryan Lee Wong’s Which Side Are You On is a case in point.
Book Review Online Private Moments of Obscure Pleasure By Sophie Brown In Amina Cain’s A Horse at Night, Sophie Brown finds a transmutation of fiction and nonfiction, a form of unfurling that strives towards articulating the intangible.
Book Review Online How She Sees Herself By Mariah Kreutter Like so many famous diaries, Annie Ernaux’s diary Getting Lost can be both titillating and tiresome. But her clarity of vision and confidence are distinctive.
Book Review Online Dreaming in America By Bruna Dantas Lobato In Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage, Bruna Dantas Lobato finds charm and dry humor underpinning an exploration of foreignness and the immigrant experience.
Book Review Online The Only Film Critic of Real Value in France By Jeffrey West Kirkwood Admiring Serge Daney’s commitment to the subtle mechanics of cinema, Jeffrey West Kirkwood speculates that the critic would hate the A24 industrial complex.
Book Review Online Badly Chosen Lovers By Madelaine Lucas In Rosemary Tonks’s The Bloater, London’s Swinging Sixties roar back to life through razor-sharp dialogue and a poet’s sensitivity to language.
Book Review Online Pawns in a Dark Plot By Maya Solovej By turns surreal, mesmerizing, and darkly unhinged, Barbara Molinard’s Panics arrives on the heels of a great many works by mid-century women writers that are making their way back into print.
Book Review Online Precisely What They Want By Sophia Stewart Far from a murder mystery with a feminist bent, Brenda Lozano’s Witches examines female autonomy across intersecting storylines.
Book Review Online Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes By Rosemarie Ho A young woman in Tokyo fakes a pregnancy in order to mess with her male coworkers. Will her scheme have meaningful effect?
Book Review Online Something Like Vellum By Noor Qasim Zain Khalid’s debut novel wrestles with the urge to shatter the coherent world and examine its parts, and the desire to reconcile reality to narrative.
Book Review Online Not Not Michel Houellebecq By Digby Warde-Aldam French high jinks and Singani 63 cocktails. It’s not quite as clever as it thinks it is, but equally, not nearly as annoying as it sounds.
Book Review Online Scars or Wings By Leah Silvieus In Lidia Yuknavitch’s Thrust, the reviewer finds a novel brushing up against the limits of its form.
Book Review Online Profoundly Out of Joint By Chelsea Leu Thuận’s Chinatown is sad, delightfully prickly, and a defiantly inscrutable act of resistance that insists that we make space for the things that don’t make sense.
Book Review Online Between Knowing and Not Knowing By Ben Eastham The late-career style of painter Philip Guston, as seen through the eyes of a friend.
