In his debut novel, The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones, Jack Wolf leads the reader through an eighteenth-century Britain heaving under the strain of unprecedented change. Read More
Roscoe knows his subject’s work and life thoroughly; he knows that the difference between Wescott’s first-person stories and first-person essays can be paper thin. He very smartly arranged the autobiographical material in A Visit to Priapus chronologically to trace for the newcomer the arc of Wecott’s life, and in the process he also happily satisfies the Wescott lover’s taste for more quality work.
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Whitaker’s novel is preoccupied with the mimetic impulse, the mind’s habit of hiding from itself and the possibility of change amongst the furniture of the past. Read More
In Fire Year, the 2012 winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, Jason K. Friedman mines two very distinct veins of American fiction: that of the American Jewish experience, and that of the American South... Read More
Fear of Flying, Jong’s first novel after publishing two volumes of poetry, turned 40 years old this year, and the celebration of its reissue reveals the sad fact that Jong’s groundbreaking work is still woefully misunderstood. Read More
With aesthetically crafted prose and quick-witted dialogue, Bruce Benderson’s first published work of fiction in the U.S. since Pacific Agony (Semiotext(e), 2009) is a darkly funny satires of political correctness. Read More
In October, Bruno Gmünder released a new edition of Christopher Coe’s beloved novel I Look Divine, with a new introduction from author...
Winterson doesn’t shy away from displaying humanity’s darkest behaviors: the things we do for love and power; the things we do to satisfy hunger and greed. Read More
Griffith moves easily between genres, from science fiction to noir thriller and back, always with a taut language sense and an elegant, fast-moving story. In Hild, she has written a historical novel of thrilling depth. Read More
When Tate McKenna, a war correspondent assigned to the Middle East, meets the stunningly beautiful Commander Evan Kane, an ace...
