fiction
Given what Olga Tokarczuk is curious about, it is not surprising that her book serves up its share of goofy humor.
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Summer Cannibals’ main virtue is its keen transmission of psychological warfare in families.
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Lost Empress’ ambition is admirable, and while the over-the-top style gets away from itself, it’s lively and sometimes entertaining.
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Rupert Thomson’s Never Anyone But You is a quiet, expert, and inestimably engaging novel.
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Blown is a short and engrossing mystery novel that also stands as a morality play, an ethical fable that suggests that our own selves are perhaps the greatest mystery of all.
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So Lucky is a tough, accomplished novel, a book that readers didn’t know they needed.
Read More“Everything about the Holocaust already seems so thoroughly unreal, as if it no longer belongs to the experience of our generation, but to mythology…”
Read MoreThe Golden family comes by its wealth, and accrues its menacing enemies, via long and labyrinthine subplots that are hard to follow.
Read MoreEvidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.
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Book Commentary: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “Why I Write” — Incomplete Answer
The old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?
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