A View of the Harbour – Elizabeth Taylor
While there would perhaps be no Taylor were it not for Woolf, it is high time that Taylor is taken on her own terms and reclaimed as a major British novelist.
Book of Numbers – Joshua Cohen
The reader is put in the same position toward the novel’s depicted world as the protagonist is toward his own life, alienated as he is from his marriage and his career.
Haints Stay is dark, and bloody, and violent: raw and cutthroat and still capable of reducing you to helpless snickers.
[Cynan Jones] endeavor[s] to “put the complex into the simple,” to borrow Empson’s definition of the pastoral. Certainly no creature is simpler than a sheep.
The Essence of Jargon – Alice Becker-Ho
Slang words may have multiple origins and equivalents, taking sometimes-meandering paths to their final meaning.
However, it’s not long before Björn discovers a problem with the room: he is the only one who can see it.
Turtleface and Beyond – Arthur Bradford
He’s like Buster Keaton, but without the rubbery grace and stoic sobriety.
Seveneves reflects on the destruction of life on Earth, the construction of a human habitat in space, and the eventual revival of and return to planet.
Another Man’s City – Ch’oe In-ho
In-ho’s great challenge is to dream up the sinless man.
If there is any form that this strange yet beautiful book nods to more than any other, it is the diary, and death is everywhere in its pages.