John the Posthumous – Jason Schwartz
I could not find an appropriate place to read this book, lest it become tainted by its deft and oh-so-pretty insidiousness.
What can I say? The lure of the forbidden is powerful.
Awake to both the subtly human and bitterly hysterical faces of contemporary life
God In Proof – Nathan Schneider
Schneider mixes together philosophy, memoir, journalism, and a good bit of sociology to get at a fundamental question: not, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” but rather, “What role do proofs of God play in human life?”
Davis’s sentences channel that half-state between consciousness and unconsciousness, that foggy place where you realize you’re waking up but are still enraptured by the vivid imagery that’s been parading through your head all night.
The Woman Upstairs – Claire Messud
A treatise on repressed creativity, voyeurism, obsession, and misanthropy, The Woman Upstairs is an exhausting ego-trip to behold.
Under This Terrible Sun – Carlos Busqued
Stoner culture and noir, when both are at their best, are experiments in mood and atmospherics.
The Currency of Paper – Alex Kovacs
The Currency of Paper is certainly a novel of ideas, albeit in a more literal sense.
Whether the book does succeed in being comforting or in making its readers happy — depends perhaps upon the reader’s tolerance for Schadenfreude
Lotería – Mario Alberto Zambrano
Fiction is never real, but good fiction is always true.