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...
Thief in the Interior / Phillip B. Williams
Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams All of the poems in Thief in the Interior, Phillip B. Williams’s debut collection, are poems...
The Narrow Door / Paul Lisicky
The Narrow Door by Paul Lisicky Vulnerability spills from Paul Lisicky’s memior The Narrow Door. An atmosphere of exposure hovers over...
