The University of Pennsylvania – Caren Beilin
Suffused with the unwieldy body historically associated with femininity, Beilin’s work is evasive, unruly, nonsensical.
I’m Very Into You – Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark
What changed with the availability of email is not so much the effect of time as that of space on communication.
Tom McCarthy’s fiction quite palpably poses a challenge to entrenched reading habits and subverts conventional literary practice.
The Tusk That Did the Damage – Tania James
The elephant carries what would otherwise be a thoughtful narrative of an American twenty-something.
Unlike other stories about the apocalypse, this book is tender.
Kitten Clone – Douglas Coupland
By eschewing a standard business profile, the book acts as a site of conflict and translation between a waning medium — print — and an ascending one — the internet.
The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing – Nicholas Rombes
When we are increasingly concerned about documentary technologies’ capacity for truth, it makes sense that the stories we tell might be concerned with the horror of too much truth, or of truth stripped bare.
Embedded in his encounters with himself amid piles of corpses is an ambitious attempt to breach the sublime with the flood of language in this novel.
Half a Lifelong Romance – Eileen Chang
Tragedy is a condition, rather than the failure to act heroically.
The End of Days – Jenny Erpenbeck
Sentences repeat as situations repeat. The sense of relief at yet another opportunity to imagine the future of a life that was lost is cut by the knowledge that loss will win out in the end.