Mouthful of Birds – Samanta Schweblin
The dark suggestion at the heart of MOUTHFUL OF BIRDS is that perhaps the surreal and the strange is in fact the ordinary.
Read in the broadest terms, in the context of literary modernism, INTIMATE TIES seems especially concerned with the psyche, sexuality, and repression.
All My Goodbyes – Mariana Dimópulos
Dimópulos works directly against one of the age-old creative writing workshop adages: don’t lose your reader in time.
Max Havelaar or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company – Multatuli
No anti-colonial tract more effectively debunked the, by then, three-century-old system which—tweaked and window-dressed to pacify the progressives of each generation—had enriched Europe while shredding colonized societies everywhere.
The Skin is the Elastic Covering that Encases the Entire Body – Bjørn Rasmussen
Rasmussen has managed to stretch the soul in the way a butcher might stretch flesh, asking us to consider the roots of our desires and the depths of our longings.
The Book of Collateral Damage – Sinan Antoon
Paper is flammable, after all, and to count the dead would take a lifetime.
This complex, psychological portrait of celebrity is a propulsive, enduring narrative that eerily predicts our contemporary digital tensions of the self.
The Nocilla Trilogy – Agustín Fernández Mallo
Its formal innovation and experimentation mark THE NOCILLA TRILOGY as stepping into a globalized and networked world
In TENTACLE, the manipulation of science fiction tropes is not a gimmick or trick, but a way to illustrate how impossibly intertwined the many forces are that have shaped the history of the Dominican Republic
The Naked Woman – Armonía Somers
THE NAKED WOMAN continues to speak to us nowadays as fiercely and urgently as seventy years ago: more than ever, women’s bodies are the place of political battles that seek to change the way we understand desire, consent, and autonomy.