
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...

The Meursault Investigation / Kamel Daoud
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud Albert Camus is a modern prophet of humanism. He was born in 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria, into...

A Little Life / Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara At the center of A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is love. The kind of love that binds four men...

The Spectral Wilderness / Oliver Bendorf
The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Bendorf Oliver Bendorf writes in the poem “Ghost Dog,” “I miss things sometimes that I cannot locate in...