All the Questions
/In her new collection of poems, Claire Becker probes the matter between what we intuit and what we learn, between what we choose and how we change.
Read MoreSorokin’s Tyrannical Chosen
/Vladimir Sorokin's gruesome (and frequently censored) satires puncture Russia's surprising nostalgia for the glory days of Stalin and Khrushchev; Amelia Glaser reviews two newly released works.
Read MoreNot merely because of the fate of character
/The self is strange and divided in Jenny Boully's new book of poetry; Karen Hannah tries to piece it together.
Read MoreOn the Barricades with the Bourgeoisie
/Visionary novelist J.G. Ballard's penultimate book "Millennium People," about an outbreak of middle-class revolution and terrorism, has finally been published in the U.S.
Read MoreThe Old Stories
/Good writers borrow, great writers steal. Sure, but should they steal whole characters? plots? authors? Robert Coover and the writers of Re: Telling steal it all and let their readers sort it out.
Read MoreMichigan Falls
/Scott Sparling's first novel Wire to Wire has rushed up at the reading world full of glue-sniffers, freight-hoppers, wedgeheads, and knives midair -- so what's it really about?
Read MoreThe Zither and the Worm
/French trailblazer Raymond Roussel created teeming and fertile worlds from a secret process of wordplay. Two of his most spectacular works are coming back into print after a long, undeserved absence.
Read MoreThe Summery Night Before the Frost
/Best known today as the muse and lover of Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Dillon was a formidable poet and personality in his own right, and one well worth rereading.
Read MoreWhat’s the Big Idea?
/FSG gave fifty poets almost no time at all to write a nation-and-epoch-spanning poem based on ancient Japanese techniques. What could possibly go wrong? Or, more interestingly, what went right?
Read MorePrimal Mysteries
/In his latest collection, The Wrecking Light, Robin Robertson blends the voices of generations of Scottish/Celtic bards and balladeers into his own unique style of poetry.
Read MoreAh, the Merry Widows!
/Widowhood is lonely, darkly comic, defiant, and emotionally vital in Michelle Latiolais's new story collection. Jeff Bursey reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: As We Are Sung
/There is nothing conventional about Christina Mengert's new book of poetry, nor can it be read the same way twice.
Read MoreThe Obscure Object of Financial Fiction
/How to write a great novel of the financial crisis? One contender has published his attempt, and it features an updated version of that bugbear figure from Shakespeare and Trollope: the Jewish banker.
Read MorePost-Communist Literature or How to Cure Baldness
/Walking talking cats? mysterious birthmarks? ancient secrets? Bogdan Suceava takes us to a strange place (Romania, present day) in his newly translated novel.
Read MoreInvisible Man
/The omissions in Javier Marías's beguiling, enigmatic novels are just as important as what appear on the page, and two newly translated books are marked by this juggling of the known and the unknown.
Read MoreBright Sparkling Speeches
/Francis Spufford's new story collection blends fact and fiction to explore the truths and towering delusions of the Soviet economic system--and its production model, the American fast food chain.
Read MoreThe Tiger Whelp
/Tea Obreht's "The Tiger's Wife" is one of the most heralded fiction debuts of the season. Kevin Frazier weighs the switch-ups of its tone against the beauties of its prose.
Read MoreThe Wanderer
/The protagonist of Teju Cole's "Open City" roams New York, gathering and subtly processing observations; Andrew Martin trails this enigmatic walker in the city.
Read MoreI Is Someone Else
/Death-in-a-Box meditates on sameness, doubling, and identity’s dissolve. So who is this Alta Ifland? And what sets her apart?
Read MoreForever Nell
/She was an orange-seller, an actress, a whore, and the most popular of Charles II's many mistresses: Nell Gwynn stars in two new novels.
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