A brief, slashing incision deep into the fasciae of postmodern society.
While much contemporary experimental fiction concentrates on the failures of human communication — the liminal spaces — Gamboa seems more interested in how we finally succeed in sharing with each other.
Memoirs of a Revolutionary – Victor Serge
The revolutionary without power or hope ends as a witness to revolutions failed, in the hope that his successors will not make the same mistakes.
How Should a Person Be? – Sheila Heti
If How Should a Person Be? was less ambitious, it might be easier for older people (and men, perhaps) to take seriously.
Dublinesque – Enrique Vila-Matas
See there!, cries the reader, The author! Peeking out from his natural habitat!
This Bright River – Patrick Somerville
“Here is something,” the reader is told repeatedly, as if about to be handed a gift.
Like a generous spouse, Gone Girl gives everything a reader could want from a mystery novel.
A Breath of Life – Clarice Lispector
Reading A Breath of Life, we feel Time (or God, or Lispector herself) passing.
What Happened to Sophie Wilder – Christopher R. Beha
Filled with characters who live and breathe literature, the novel buzzes like a late-night conversation, dizzy with ideas.
No Animals We Could Name – Ted Sanders
To die, in Sanders’ world, is to be drugged senseless; to live is to be drugged by the senses.