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★★★★☆ It is better to consider Jesse Ball a text-based artist than simply a novelist: his books are far from traditionally fulfilling narratives but instead captivating volumes of expressive, theoretical exploration. Dialogue-driven, A Cure...
★★★☆☆ Speak of cannibalism in America and two names come to mind: the Donner Party and Alfred Packer. History has proven that, except for starvation and eating the dead, nothing untoward happened to the...
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ In The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins has crafted a contemporary fantasy novel that is at once brutally dark and wickedly funny. The curtain opens on a woman...
It may be tempting to approach Wind/Pinball like you would pressing play on a favorite band’s demo tape, but Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 (Haruki Murakami’s first two novels) are surprisingly polished...
Fifty years after her untimely death, Let Me Tell You is a new reminder of just how excellent a writer Shirley Jackson was. The stories, essays, and lectures in this sparkling new collection include...
Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young man who leads an ordinary life in London until one day he comes upon an injured girl named Door who brings Richard into...
The announcement that Go Set A Watchman, a new/old Harper Lee novel, would be published in July 2015 unleashed a firestorm of controversy, legal maneuvering, speculation, and vociferous opinion sharing. In fact, it created...
I scrawled a note in the front cover of Saint Monkey: “Makes me feel like my love is precarious.” That doesn’t sound so good, except that it perfectly encapsulates the author’s abilities. Jacinda Townsend...
London, 1884. Nathaniel Steepleton ekes a meager living as a governmental employee, a telegraphist at the Home Office. His days tick off routinely one after the other until the mysterious arrival of a golden...
