With the Animals – Noëlle Revaz
Revaz makes it possible to feel a certain empathy for Paul, a pity for how small he has made his world and how tightly he needs to control it.
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk – Ben Fountain
The hypocrisy that’s so prevalent you almost only notice it when it’s absent.
I Am an Executioner: Love Stories – Rajesh Parameswaran
No creature, human or animal or alien, escapes the terrible consequences of falling in love.
Metawritings: Notes Toward a Theory of Nonfiction – Jill Talbot
It would be no surprise if, solely based on the book’s title, many would-be readers rolled their eyes uncontrollably.
Nostalgia is a fetish; in SOUND it’s a compulsion, a habit to be tamed.
The mélange of information is surprisingly coherent and unflaggingly intense.
PANOPTICON is ultimately a profoundly optimistic work, a leap of faith that chooses to revel in the opacity of language because — well, just because.
Most haunting of all is the prospect of losing one’s perceptive abilities.
Almost Never is like a comedy of manners cut with a pulpy erotic novel, a social satire impelled by a dripping lecherousness. Most of all, it’s a fantastic, exciting book.
The Sugar Frosted Nutsack – Mark Leyner
When attempts to completely reconfigure our idea of the novel don’t wind up working, one starts feeling all the more pained by the absence of the fundamentals of fiction.