The Storyteller Essays – Walter Benjamin
Stories rely on their iterability, extant within a system of circulation, mobile and memorable.
In these new climate circumstances, old stories will not suffice when it comes to stirring us to action.
There is motive to this movement, if difficult female narrators can be called a movement.
The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa
That there should be such ambiguity between perpetrator and victim is, it seems, part of the tragedy of totalitarianism: one can fully escape neither victimhood nor complicity.
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water – António Lobo Antunes
This new book demonstrates Lobo Antunes’ trajectory as a novelist, which could be described as a gradual broadening of scope, an attempt to incorporate more and more diverse voices into his fictions.
Grenade in Mouth: Some Poems of Miyó Vestrini – Miyó Vestrini
Poems are too little, too. That’s why we need grenades, it would seem.
Human Matter: A Fiction – Rodrigo Rey Rosa
The Guatemalan novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa might have invented a new way for metafiction to feel.
Mouthful of Birds – Samanta Schweblin
The dark suggestion at the heart of MOUTHFUL OF BIRDS is that perhaps the surreal and the strange is in fact the ordinary.
Read in the broadest terms, in the context of literary modernism, INTIMATE TIES seems especially concerned with the psyche, sexuality, and repression.
All My Goodbyes – Mariana Dimópulos
Dimópulos works directly against one of the age-old creative writing workshop adages: don’t lose your reader in time.