The New Adventures of Helen
“Once upon a time” is perhaps the original narrative “hook” [...]
Brickmakers
Selva Almada’s star has been rising in her native Argentina [...]
We Want What We Want
Alix Ohlin’s new story collection is filled with rowdy, irreverent [...]
Land of Snow and Ashes
Petra Rautiainen’s debut novel, Land of Snow and Ashes, transports [...]
The Promise
Somewhere in apartheid Pretoria, 1985, Rachel Swart, a recently re-converted [...]
Our Country Friends
For satirist Gary Shytengart— best known for his 2010 dystopian [...]
LaserWriter II
There’s nothing quite like the moment of panic when your [...]
The John from Jongmyo Park
The day I received my second eviction notice, I looked [...]
Strange Children
In Sadie Hoagland’s debut novel, Strange Children, eight young narrators [...]
Crossroads
After the six-year hiatus, to say Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads was [...]