Hardly a portrait of glory from sea to shining sea, these tales drop in on estranged, lost, and overwhelmed people.
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Book Review: “Parakeet” — A Wild Constellation
Parakeet is a virtuosic, perplexing, challenging trip. If it’s too disturbing a tale for this particular moment (it shouldn’t be), it may be a great work to explore in a year to come.
Book Review: “Like Flies from Afar” — A Very Twisted Odyssey
This is hard-hitting neo-noir parable whose dark humor delights as it strikes at the corrupt heart of business as usual in Argentina.
Book Review: “You Will Never Be Forgotten” — Curiouser and Curiouser
Whatever might be dark about these stories may also be — since they’re reliably witty and frequently very funny — a welcome distraction and relief from current events.
Poetry Review: “If Men, Then” — Verse on Present Day Firing Lines
Because Eliza Griswold’s poems often take place in war zones, she’s always provocative — even when she is tendentious.
Book Review: Peter Handke — A Writer At War With Himself
The imperative to engage with landscape, and thus leave or at least minimize the self, has become of great importance to Peter Handke.
Book Review: Thomas De Quincey — A Memorably “Guilty Thing”
Frances Wilson’s biography of Thomas De Quincey is superb, written with enormous empathy and insight.
Fuse Book Review: “The Last Painting of Sara De Vos” — On Art and Forgery
You may have read similar earlier works, but Dominic Smith’s novel is in a class of its own.