The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
What I had thought was going to be a fairly standard teenage narrative was obviously going somewhere else entirely.
The result of Baricco’s game of omission could be seen either as an overweight but undefined metaphor, or an eerie suggestion of the ineffable power of words.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki – Haruki Murakami
The real beauty of the books, Colorless Tsukuru and all the rest, comes from the intimate relationship Murakami has with his readers.
The Future for Curious People – Gregory Sherl
Let’s just say that if this book were turned into a sitcom or a summer blockbuster, it would star Zooey Deschanel and Paul Rudd.
Why do we tell stories, and does reality change just a little when they aren’t true?
In a sea of linguistic uncertainty, the locus of meaning, that original word, is more often than not established solely through force.
Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours – Luke B. Goebel
Short sentences are followed by half-page, single-sentence paragraphs that read like David Foster Wallace channeling Hunter S. Thompson.
Volodine’s writers, as it turns out, write because they must kill.
The Luminol Reels – Laura Ellen Joyce
You can afford to read The Luminol Reels, which runs a slender ninety-seven pages, multiple times. Plan on doing so.
We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm – Lola Lafon
Lafon’s is a novel that asks, in certain ways, not to be reviewed.