Marta Oulie provides a stark, yet personal addition to the conversations of early 20th century Western women writers such as Virginia Woolf and Kate Chopin.
It is not uncommon in discussions of Peter Handke’s work for both Handke and literary critics to refer to a “text” of his rather than to a novel, a play, or a memoir.
The Whole of Life – Jürg Laederach
Never before have I spent so long reading and re-reading a novel’s first page, trying to make sense of it. Already, I’d been tricked.
Operation Massacre – Rodolfo Walsh
Walsh sees the world as it is, but he never loses sight of the world as it should be.
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Krzhizhanovsky comes across as a kind of Mikhail Bulgakov on drugs.
Everything Happens as It Does – Albena Stambolova
The stories of a handful of comingling lives unspool with the beguiling sense of fatedness that overtakes all events once they’ve happened the way they’ve happened to happen.
The Mehlis Report – Rabee Jaber
Some critics suggest that Jaber, who writes prolifically, needs to slow down or submit himself to an editor’s scissors. But The Mehlis Report makes for a glorious ramble, a leaping of the lines between investigation and gossip, between present and past, between life and death.
My Father’s Ghost is Climbing in the Rain – Patricio Pron
The difficulty of writing when one’s own story has been broken.
Under This Terrible Sun – Carlos Busqued
Stoner culture and noir, when both are at their best, are experiments in mood and atmospherics.
An irrepressible story, one that dissolves all certainty, and which can hardly be contained by words without threatening to burn them to the ground.