The Kingdom of the Young – Edie Meidav
Although Meidav’s writing is lucid and subtly evocative, it really makes no effort to be “lyrical” or “rhapsodic.”
The problem of girlhood cannot be adequately addressed within the form of literary realism.
In the absence of scene, ideas take over – invented bibliographies, doctrinal disputes, theories of time, schools of mapmaking – but always with a physical backdrop, an illuminated library row or looming landscape.
The Sacred Era – Yoshio Aramaki
Formerly preoccupied with imagining the future, science fiction is more inclined toward future anteriority.
In Search of New Babylon – Dominique Scali
This genealogy of American violence suggests the West as an extension of a mechanism long set in motion, always going to break in the singular, inevitable way it could have.
Theis lives in the stage directions, in the unspoken.
The Knack of Doing – Jeremy M. Davies
In fiction, it’s more fun when the watch, after pages and pages of diligent ticking, explodes, starts screaming, or shoots poop out of its dial — does something, anything, to upend the pattern or upset the conceit.
Bodies of Summer – Martin Felipe Castagnet
At its best Castagnet’s debut work artfully skirts overt philosophizing about mind-body relations and necropolitics, keeping this slim speculative novel at an athletic pace and leaving ample room for us to explore its marvelous world for ourselves.
Rebellion in Patagonia – Osvaldo Bayer
Rebellion in Patagonia revealed a tragedy of the highest order, no doubt. But it’s in the story of the book and what happened to its author that we find the farce.
History of a Disappearance – Filip Springer
Springer’s history is simply a “beast,” sometimes slumbering, but more often fiercely awake.