Following 1999's Twinship, this novel about a group of misfits trying to deal with the conundrum of a man who has "gone and become a baby" is again Continue reading »
Absurdist characters in surreal situations populate Foos's spare fifth novel, which despite its comedic charms, derails in a confused jumble of half-realized ideas and unresolved plot lines. Continue reading »
In a dogged satire of sexual issues ranging from female infertility to arbitrary penile erection, this first novel presents the travails of Rita, who one night realizes she has lost her uterus at a Continue reading »
""If I'd known walruses were waiting for me on some back road in Florida, I might have taken more of an interest in bowling."" So begins Foos's satirical, fantastical second novel, which like her Continue reading »
As zany and preposterous as fans of Ex Utero and Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist will expect, Foos's new novel is another story of bizarre events related with deadpan humor. It's the lively Continue reading »
Colombian writer Ospina (Variations on the Body, a story collection) dismantles the illusion of man-made borders in her beautiful debut novel, which tracks the migrations of Continue reading »
An ambitious journalist chases a big scoop and seeks to understand her Brooklyn roots in Savitch-Lew’s impressive debut. The story hinges on events from decades earlier, when Continue reading »
A vivacious woman falls in love with a priest in 1950s England in the emotive and revelatory debut novel from poet Sy-Quia (Amnion). At a funeral in 2018, Adrian Fletcher learns Continue reading »
An aristocratic Hungarian family copes with cascading trauma over three generations and two world wars in the extraordinary English-language debut from Swiss writer Biedermann. Continue reading »