In award-winning Argentinian novelist Betina González’s ‘American Delirium’, the storylines tend to flirt with the uncertain borderline demarcating the merely zany from the farcical.
Black American author Wesley Brown’s prose is assembled like notes on sheet music, his political assertions the staves that backdrop the story.
A sprawling portrait of life in Los Angeles’ suburbs, Sandi Tan’s LURKERS is fascinating, funny and sometimes horrifying.
Sandi Tan on how she battles demons and performs exorcisms in her new book, Lurkers, and elsewhere in her art.
Sartori's Bug is a study in quirkiness, but it is founded upon a serious and complex substratum.
Easy to summarize but difficult to, um, flesh out, Chelsea G. Summers’ A Certain Hunger is, without a doubt, the Great American Female Serial Killer Novel.
To this day, the history of people of color in England is often erased from dominant cultural narratives. Fictions, however, can collectively shift cultural narratives; we need stories to counter stories.
Tension is inescapable in Warren Read's story about a need to escape, One Simple Thing.
In Dennis E. Staples' remarkable debut, This Town Sleeps, flawed mothers and sons must pacify vengeful ghosts and family curses. As if loving each other wasn't hard enough.
Debut novel A World Between explores the messy relationship dynamics that both bolster and challenge our emotional bonds with the ones we love.
With Girls Against God, avant-garde musician Jenny Hval gives us a semi-autobiographical text that, like the metalhead teen she describes, won't abide by any rules.
In Carl Neville's latest novel, Eminent Domain, he creates complexities and then shatters them into tiny narrative bits arrayed along a non-linear timeline.
