The Tiger Flu asks us to consider the implications of our technological drive, who belongs, who is part of a community, and what makes us human.
The Madwoman of Serrano – Dina Salústio
In a novel where speech and silence are linked to power, it feels important that this novel, the first English-language translation by a female author from Cape Verde, can now reach a wider audience.
The Maze of Transparencies – Karen An-hwei Lee
How can there be a “formula” for happiness? What is happiness’s “data”?
Labyrinth is the mystery novel at its most existential, in which the person who has disappeared is the protagonist himself, in which the mystery is the greatest of them all.
In this first outing, McCombs struggles toward spiritual frenzy, struggles toward total casualness, struggles toward artificial grace.
Three Brothers: Memories of My Family – Yan Lianke
Yan is concerned with death in this arresting work, not only the death of loved ones, but of a whole moment in Chinese history that, for ever more young people, is incomprehensible and even non-existent.
Me & Other Writing – Marguerite Duras
Even for the French it is nearly impossible to pin down exactly how Duras does what she does.
The Bodies of Birds – Melanie Rae Thon
It is difficult to describe the lyricism of THE BODIES OF BIRDS in any other way besides liquid metaphors: it swirls, it ripples, it eddies through its narrative waves.
The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary – Molly Reid
Which animal is on the brink of rapture?
Future Tense Fiction – Multiple Authors
FUTURE TENSE FICTION is an exciting and self-conscious celebration of what science fiction has often done best – predict the future