A Burning by Megha Majumdar
Megha Majumdar’s debut novel forces us to see the inequities in the world, and the way desire for freedom is so often thwarted.
Book Reviews
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Shibli is a deft chronicler of the blinkering of life wrought by oppressive regimes, the way their manifold codes and proscriptions tighten around perception like a coil of barbed wire.
Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity by Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour’s essay collection is a fearless reflection of an immigrant searching for home and for herself.
Quotients by Tracy O’Neill
Does information protect or imprison us? Tracy O’Neill’s highly-anticipated second novel—part suspense story, part relationship drama and part commentary on the perils of our interconnected epoch—explores a world in which the truth is hard to determine, and even harder to prove.
Cockfight by María Fernanda Ampuero
Ampuero enters into critical dialogue with form and substance. Combining structures reminiscent of fairy tales and horror films, Ampuero upends these conventions by reversing tropes and decentering the male gaze.
Obit by Victoria Chang
The emotional power of Chang’s new collection comes from the grace and honesty with which she turns this familiar form inside out to show us the private side of family, the knotting together of generations, the bewilderment of grief.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Zhang’s novel is a treasure-trove of questions that devastate even as they beckon readers on.
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
Its comfort in the grotesque, the casual nature of it, is the most disturbing yet captivating aspect of the novel. Melchor’s debut drowns the reader in ominous truth, accentuating real life through fiction.
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel continues her project of examining the immeasurable possibilities available in a single life.