Viet Thanh Nguyen Nearly Cleaves His Protagonist in Two in ‘The Committed’
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed loosens what binds the protagonist in his earlier book, The Sympathizer.
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‘Miss Iceland’ Is a Brilliant Novel of Sexism, Homophobia, and the Writing Life
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir's Miss Iceland Is at once a poetic, light-hearted narrative and a sharply edged social critique that is caustic and righteous in its portrayal of the enduring nature of sexism, misogyny and homophobia.
In ‘Night Beast’, Joffre Pens Nefarious Worlds That Embrace the Lurid and Fantastical
Ruth Joffre has a talent for making the macabre playful but ultimately Night Beast is disenchanting.
