@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex – Shane Harris
Most frustrating is the author’s futile attempt to reconcile his desire for a broad readership with his choice of a subject as inherently technical as cyber warfare.
The Last Projector – David James Keaton
Everything from car accidents and vicious dog attacks to a broken penis and punches to the face are hurled at the reader without any time for rest.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country – William H. Gass
Gass is not an obfuscator by nature, but rather one who would show you how a thing works, whether it’s the clockwork of a sentence by Henry James or the heart of a fascist.
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.