Viper Wine whispers beyond its pages, reappearing in glossy advertisements of Elle and in strange-tasting rouged lips.
The University of Pennsylvania – Caren Beilin
Suffused with the unwieldy body historically associated with femininity, Beilin’s work is evasive, unruly, nonsensical.
Unlike other stories about the apocalypse, this book is tender.
Trifonova forces the reader to reassess the opinions and institutions that validate the knowledge we have both of ourselves and of others.
The Maggot People – Henning Koch
Serious, grotesque absurdity: The Master and Margarita as written by William Burroughs, a politico-religious sci-fi thriller with talking dogs and immortal maggot people.
David Sedaris once quipped that speaking German is like speaking English but sideways. Reading The Wallcreeper — which happens, incidentally, to be set in mostly German-speaking places — feels like reading but sideways.
The Last Projector – David James Keaton
Everything from car accidents and vicious dog attacks to a broken penis and punches to the face are hurled at the reader without any time for rest.
McGlue is covered in a lush filth.
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing – Eimear McBride
If the prose style we encounter is initially resistant to our usual expectations, it acquires its own kind of clarity in advancing the narrative.
Consumed’s treatment of exotic and unusual STDs, the line between mental illness and unpleasant insight, uneasy sex, and gore is assured and well executed.