Hari Kunzru’s ‘White Tears’ begins with the entitlement of record collecting and ends in a bloody ghost story. The book you begin to read is not the book you end with—in the most delectable sense.
Sasha Stephenson’s engaging but occasionally frustrating ‘Iceling’ opens sixteen years ago, when a team of scientists discover a bundle of abandoned human babies in the Arctic. As a work of YA genre fiction, it gets many things right.
Kate Zambreno’s O Fallen Angel is not subtle, and that’s a good thing. It is a triptych of a novel—if you can really call it a novel. Zambreno’s defiance of the genre comes across loud and clear in each part of this bold work.
Spiritualism is real. That’s the driving conceit in Chicago author Mary Robinette Kowal’s latest historical fantasy novel, Ghost Talkers.
“Girls,” if you haven’t read it, is a simple story. Vic and Enn search for a rumored party. Vic is good with the ladies, while Enn thinks of them as alien creatures.
As a child in North Dakota, Louise Erdrich‘s father gave her a nickel for every story she wrote. It turnedContinue Reading
To read Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Albina and the Dogmen is to careen through a surreal landscape on a mythic roller coaster. Bandits ride giant white hares. A clubfooted man transforms into a holy hound. An albino giantess goes toe-to-toe with death itself.
In his debut novel, The Last Days of Magic, Mark Tompkins imbues European history with Irish mythology, allowing real-life characters to rub shouldersContinue Reading
