The Chandelier – Clarice Lispector
The words they use include ones like sorceress, saint, superhuman, and sphinx. Otherwise, they refer to her by her first name alone.
The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner
It appears that Kushner wants readers to believe — and feel — that the book is transparent, almost literally true.
The Infinite Future – Tim Wirkus
To visit another world and glean its wisdom and come back with it — that is the task of the translator.
The Comedown – Rebekah Frumkin
One wonders indeed how far back we might trace the sources of a family’s anxieties, the original sins of the original fathers, a neurotic first mover.
moore’s own practice of writing FABULOUS extends his project, creating another, more intangible and theoretical, place for these brown, queer, and fabulous lives.
Missives from the Green Campaign – David Armstrong
We exchange small gods for growing things, and are content.
Transit Comet Eclipse – Muharem Bazdulj
Are these characters mere wood for the burning furnance of an Auster-enamored author?
Good Stock Strange Blood – Dawn Lundy Martin
Martin takes no heed; the pages of this book are rife with violence, both outside and within the family, the home.
The Overstory – Richard Powers
What if a hundred thousand humans dressed as trees and migrated to Washington? How about a “War on Christmas (Trees)”? Fleet-footed activists come out at night and spray the trees for sale on city streets with orange paint, recalling Agent Orange and disrupting wasteful tree farms.
UFO Drawings from the National Archives – David Clarke
Neither Mulder nor Scully nor us ever found joy in a narrative that offered us “the truth” since the “out there” was always more than enough.