Meter-Wide Button – Lillian Paige Walton
Walton joins the ranks of other contemporary writers toying with surrealism, turning it anew.
Ultimately, Nash has created a spiny and sobering arrangement of characters outside the urban landscape prioritized in contemporary literature, which is refreshing in itself.
Valentino and Sagittarius – Natalia Ginzburg
Her novellas are containers for the cruelest of ironies, and the results are two morality tales, pushed nearly to the limits of realism.
The Superrationals – Stephanie LaCava
It is a novel about everything leading up to the shake-up, to the precise moment of becoming changed, of becoming unmoored.
Skyland is most preoccupied with this very relationship, the one between fiction and reality, or autobiography, and how this relationship is fraught, one streaked by slippage.
Machines In The Head – Anna Kavan
Her stories feel prescient today; they capture the madness and degradation of isolation and living in a ravaged world.
CLEANNESS, at its core, is an examination of the sticky and inextricable pairing of masculinity and violence.
I Used to Be Charming – Eve Babitz
Babitz has not lost her caustic, self-deprecating, and observational humor. But does it still work? Or, rather, is it what we need?
A nod to communism doesn’t make fashion political, it makes it nothing more than collage.
Exquisite Mariposa – Fiona Alison Duncan
Its first bites taste like mainstream contemporary fiction; they go down easy, like candy, or like a Sally Rooney novel. But as you continue to chew — because this novel is chewy — you encounter something quite different.