The Anatomy of Dreams – Chloe Benjamin
Too many sentences feel freighted with meaning — too small to be foreshortening, too clunky to seem clever in hindsight.
Bolaño: A Biography in Conversations – Mónica Maristain
A kind of memorial service where stories — and differing accounts of the man — can be heard amid the rapturous din of conjecture.
McGlue is covered in a lush filth.
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing – Eimear McBride
If the prose style we encounter is initially resistant to our usual expectations, it acquires its own kind of clarity in advancing the narrative.
I Called Him Necktie – Milena Michiko Flašar
We realize: no one is what they seem. We realize: everyone has private tragedies; everyone is a tiny book.
It is a spy novel, a romance, a society novel, a psychological novel, it is littered with aphoristic reflections, moments of literary criticism, cultural and political analyses.
Into the Go-Slow – Bridgett M. Davis
Into the Go-Slow highlights the difficulty of understanding the world’s many contrasts and contradictions.
Consumed’s treatment of exotic and unusual STDs, the line between mental illness and unpleasant insight, uneasy sex, and gore is assured and well executed.
The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
What I had thought was going to be a fairly standard teenage narrative was obviously going somewhere else entirely.
The result of Baricco’s game of omission could be seen either as an overweight but undefined metaphor, or an eerie suggestion of the ineffable power of words.