‘Destroy All Monsters’ Is a Harrowing Tribute to Small-Town Music Scenes
Jeff Jackson’s rock and roll novel has a Side A and Side B.
Category: Reviews
Another Look at Ursula K. Le Guin’s Short Fantasy Novels
Ursula K. Le Guin, who died earlier this year, was known for her award-winning fantasy novels and short stories. TwoContinue Reading
All Hail NYRB For Bringing Back ‘Moderan,’ a Lost Sci-Fi Classic
With enough steel and plastic, what can’t be created and controlled? This is the question that dominates Moderan, a future worldContinue Reading
A Soaring Novel in 116 ‘Flights’
Each of my pilgrimages aims at some other pilgrim,” says the unnamed narrator of Flights, Olga Tokarczuk’s ninth novel, whichContinue Reading
‘Ohio’ Depicts an Unforgiving Life-after-War in the Midwest
On Stephen Markley’s “knockout” debut novel.
Everything About ‘Nothing Good’ Is Great
On Kristi Coulter’s essay collection, ‘Nothing Good Can Come from This.’
‘The Carrying’ Is Ada Limón’s Most Personal Poetry Yet
The National Book Award finalist is back with another blistering collection of poems.
‘The Incendiaries’ Is an Extraordinary Novel of Longing
There’s a point late in R.O. Kwon’s luminous debut novel The Incendiaries where Phoebe Lin, the haunted young woman atContinue Reading
‘The Third Hotel’ Is an Otherworldly Force Unto Itself
Laura van den Berg’s brilliant new novel, The Third Hotel, is a quasi-supernatural tale of loss and grief, told withContinue Reading
The Pleasures of Hating in ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’
On Ottessa Moshfegh’s latest “unlikeable” character.
