Theatrical Release
The words are a good description of a first-person narrator, that personage who at least since Jane Eyre has been a spotlight-hogging wallflower. Set in that lineage, David’s vocation is…
A History of Violence
On Gisèle Pelicot, Virginie Despentes, and post-#MeToo narratives
Sweet Days of Discipline
Jane DeLynn’s novel of a student’s sexual awakening
My Brilliant Fiend
Elfriede Jelinek’s screwball zombie epic
The Secret History
An investigation of the US’s mass internment of Japanese Americans
Texas Excess
Carmen Boullosa upends the Lone Star State’s mythology
Nowhere Fast
Antonio di Benedetto’s “Trilogy of Expectation”
You Can’t Go Home Again
Ágota Kristóf’s confounding fictions of exile
The Azrael World
Joy Williams’s stories of angels, demons, and death
Just Forget It
John Kelsey’s injured romanticism