For all his supposed nihilism and self-proclaimed untaggability, Eliot’s story is archetypal.
How To Get Into the Twin Palms – Karolina Waclawiak
A book trying to say something that cannot be said directly. A book so full of spaces between clouds.
Battleborn – Claire Vaye Watkins
The stories drift around in time and history, homing in on characters who are subtly — or not so subtly — processing violence, death, or detachment.
The Age of Miracles – Karen Thompson Walker
Walker’s prose, like her imagining, is competent, but also rather predictable.
What Happened to Sophie Wilder – Christopher R. Beha
Filled with characters who live and breathe literature, the novel buzzes like a late-night conversation, dizzy with ideas.
Bad personality, bad prose, and sexism aside, the narrator’s anxieties about how to novelize history are legitimate.
The Land of Decoration – Grace McCleen
Judith’s preoccupations with death are more about her longing for a perfect world, one that she creates in miniature on the floor of her bedroom and calls “the Land of Decoration.”
The mélange of information is surprisingly coherent and unflaggingly intense.
There are books that you possess, and books that possess you. Clearly, THREATS is the latter.
The Ruins of Us – Keija Parssinen
A novel about place written for people who are not from that place.