A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
With its staccato opening lines, Eimar McBride’s audacious and harrowing first novel, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, announces its linguistically disruptive intentions . . .
Snow and Shadow
Snow and Shadow, translated from Chinese by Nicky Harman, is a restrained—bordering on disinterested—dreamscape that spends much of its time in the realm of nightmare.
Families Among Us
Kimzey’s collection proposes that we need look no further than our own homes and communities for the source of the curious and the bizarre, and it is through these otherworldly, yet earthly, creations that we discover that which binds us all.
Fat Man and Little Boy
Mike Meginnis has done something truly remarkable with his debut novel, Fat Man and Little Boy. He has created a piece of art that transcends genre boundaries while remaining both accessible and conversation sparking.
The Diamond Lane
Karen Karbo’s The Diamond Lane offers a unique and humorous perspective on the materialistic values of Hollywood. An award-winning author, Karbo has published fourteen books: novels, memoirs, and nonfiction, including her best-selling “Kick Ass Women” series, a nonfiction series in which Karbo commentates on the lives of powerful women of the twentieth century—Julia Child and Audrey Hepburn, for example—and on the life lessons one can take from their stories.
In Times of Fading Light
As Eugen Ruge’s novel In Times of Fading Light opens, the year is 2001, the place is a town named Neuendorf on the outskirts of Berlin—a town formerly in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Communist eastern half of Germany—and the characters are forty-seven-year-old Alexander Umnitzer and his aged father, Kurt.
Anything Good Is a Secret
Winner of the 2014 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction, selected by Kent Nelson In black and white, two men as silhouettes at a distance across a sea of sand. A donkey between them, their outlines hazy in the blaze of day. The sky is a solid mass of barely blue, and a blur on the […]
Miruna, A Tale
If the rest of the world were paying attention, we might note that Romania is having an artistic renaissance. Highest of profile has been the Romanian new wave in film, with acclaimed movies from Cristi Puiu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu) and Christian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) gaining the attention and praise of international audiences.
The Clash of Images
Kilito’s style is that of a ponderous memoir with a capacity for drawing up and revealing the cultural conflicts that bunch beneath the surface of his stories.
The Biology of Luck
Writing is an act often defined by the conflict between faith and despair, and though Larry is often tempted to give up, the reader will find The Biology of Luckcharged with an appealing earnestness and crafted with understated precision at the sentence level.