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.
The Unmapped Country – Ann Quin
The substance of Ann Quin’s novels are not to be found in their stories but in the ways in which Quin displaces the story without ever quite abandoning it.
What should we expect of a novel? A momentary escape from gray-skied reality? A catalyst for personal realization? Census provided none of these possibilities for me.
Empty Set – Verónica Gerber Bicecci
How do you render negative space, and if you can accurately describe it, is it really negative?
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
It’s a work wherein that which is nascent only moves in a single, inevitable line, to onomatopoeic beats of the novel’s closing words, “widdeboom, widdeboom.”
THE ANSWERS is a novel of great lucidity and actuality, an unsettling book that offers no answers but still provides provocative insight into some of the most frightening ethical questions of our times.
Typescript of the Second Origin – Manuel de Pedrolo
It was, perhaps, as if Frank Herbert had accidentally written THE HUNGER GAMES.