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Review: You Like it Darker by Stephen King
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: “You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King … Continue reading
Review: Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Simón López Trujillo’s “mind-blowing” (Gabriela Cabezón Cámara) debut takes readers into a dry and degraded, fire-prone landscape where humanity has encroached a step too far into the natural world, and a deadly fungus mounts … Continue reading
Review: I Met Someone by Bruce Wagner
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: An emotional thriller by novelist Bruce Wagner, I Met Someone is the story of a fictional Hollywood marriage on the precipice of disaster—and an enthralling meditation on the world in which we live.Bruce Wagner’s I Met Someone is … Continue reading
Review: Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare, from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lucy … Continue reading
Review: Superstars by Ann Scott
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: One of the premier French cult novels of the last thirty years, a tender and combative portrait of Paris’s queer rave scene in the 90s — for fans of Virginie Despentes and Gary Indiana. … Continue reading
Review: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Buy it now Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is … Continue reading
Review: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synospsis: The future of storytelling is here. Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she’s suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle … Continue reading
Review: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc … Continue reading
Review: Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V Dearborn
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals V. S. Pritchett called her “a genius.” Gore Vidal described her as … Continue reading
Review: Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: ‘My heart felt very tender reading this. Astonishing Kawakami, as always‘ Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your FaceFrom the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs. Hana has nothing but she’s hopeful. She’s fifteen … Continue reading
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