We Are Green and Trembling – Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Erauso is the stranger in this world and he, the conquistador, becomes a subject in the dominion of this new world
Ma makes the case that rénlún is insufficient for determining real, lived human relationships.
My Heavenly Favorite — Lucas Rijneveld
As a reader, to spend so much time with this man’s mind is troubling. Still, the rhythmical intensity of Rijneveld’s prose is so striking, the reader can’t help being captivated by this disturbed yet poetic man. As uncomfortable as it is to admit, there is pleasure in his company.
Lili Is Crying – Hélène Bessette
Absent mothers beget resentment or yearning in their daughters; overpresent mothers make their hearts fester.
Save Me, Stranger – Erika Krouse
A book that preaches empathy and human connection is nothing new. But Krouse isn’t preaching, and her characters often don’t understand each other.
It’s Not the End of the World – Jonathan Parks-Ramage
If every novel about modern people is a novel about zombies […] then every novel about people is also a novel about babies
Baglin catalogues those small psychological adjustments that are as important to learn as Point-of-Sale technology or managerial abbreviations if one wants to stay afloat in the modern workplace.
To write about what you see online treads the thin line between exposing others and exposing yourself.
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness – Irene Solà
Solà’s latest novel asks you to follow her across the line between the living and the dead, to hold fascism and goat husbandry together with light slanting across a kitchen floor.
How does something “die octoberish?”