Do Not Become Alarmed / Maile Meloy
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy A rare abstract sentence in Maile Meloy’s new novel Do Not Become Alarmed offers a way of...
Contradictions in Design / Matthew Olzmann
Contradictions in the Design by Matthew Olzmann The thirty-seven poems in Matthew Olzmann’s recent collection, Contradictions in the...
The Return / Hisham Matar
The Return by Hisham Matar During the days of popular revolt against Gaddafi’s authoritarian regime, Hisham Matar—the 47-year-old Libyan...
A Gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Elegantly crafted and dazzlingly clever, Amor Towles’s novel A Gentleman in Moscow transcends the...
The Ghost of Birds / Eliot Weinberger
The Ghost of Birds by Eliot Weinberger Half a dozen stories from the Arabian Nights open with an enigmatic, perhaps untranslatable...
Lincoln in the Bardo / George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders I didn’t know what a bardo was before reading George Saunders’s new novel Lincoln in the Bardo,...
Driving Without a License / Janine Joseph
Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph One has come to expect quality from Alice James Books. The venerable New England cooperative...
You Should Pity Us Instead / Amy Gustine
You Should Pity Us Instead by Amy Gustine “Most serious and productive artists,” writes Joyce Carol Oates, “are ‘haunted’ by their...
Mrs. Engels / Gavin McCrea
Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea Close your eyes and imagine Karl Marx. Can you see him? That giant head covered in curly hair, that jolly...
White Blight / Athena Farrokhzad
White Blight by Athena Farrokhzad Translated by Jennifer Hayashida Athena Farrokhzad’s White Blight, translated by Jennifer Hayashida, is...
