Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury – Sigrid Nunez
A beloved pet serves as a singularly appropriate subject through which a story of change — epochal, mundane, or otherwise — can be told.
EXTRATRANSMISSION – Andrea Abi-Karam
A poetry of directness, for Abi-Karam, means naming the violence, the rage, and the pain that is too often formally disguised.
Beyond Education – Eli Meyerhoff
We must be mindful not to understate the submerged radical potential of the democratic educational ideal.
Serotonin – Michel Houellebecq
Houellebecq’s aloof intensity remains paradoxical, provocative, and singular.
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.