Turtleface and Beyond – Arthur Bradford
He’s like Buster Keaton, but without the rubbery grace and stoic sobriety.
Seveneves reflects on the destruction of life on Earth, the construction of a human habitat in space, and the eventual revival of and return to planet.
Another Man’s City – Ch’oe In-ho
In-ho’s great challenge is to dream up the sinless man.
If there is any form that this strange yet beautiful book nods to more than any other, it is the diary, and death is everywhere in its pages.
The Future – Marc Augé / Heroes – Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi
Neither Augé nor Bifo wants the future to be a dodge, and nor should we.
The Outer Harbour – Wayde Compton
Without the rubric of race and ethnicity applied, she is unclassifiable, and therefore both powerful and vulnerable.
The Force of What’s Possible – Lily Hoang & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
The avant-garde, in prizing the possible, is always asking about — everything. Possibility and asking: fundamentally, the two intertwine.
The Guild of Saint Cooper – Shya Scanlon
The Guild of Saint Cooper feels less like Twin Peaks fanfiction than a novel written for an audience that will understand the joke.
The strangest thing that could happen in a story of modern, domestic malaise is for a struggling single mother not to, say, turn into a doily.
The Old Man and the Bench – Urs Allemann
It’s not spoiling anything to say that the old man’s twaddle does eventually stop.