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.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki – Haruki Murakami
The real beauty of the books, Colorless Tsukuru and all the rest, comes from the intimate relationship Murakami has with his readers.
The Future for Curious People – Gregory Sherl
Let’s just say that if this book were turned into a sitcom or a summer blockbuster, it would star Zooey Deschanel and Paul Rudd.
Why do we tell stories, and does reality change just a little when they aren’t true?
In a sea of linguistic uncertainty, the locus of meaning, that original word, is more often than not established solely through force.