Sacred Horror and the Border Imagination: On Fernando A. Flores’s “Tears of the Trufflepig”
"Tears of the Trufflepig" is a narcocorrido for the Island of Dr. Moreau. It’s Roberto Bolaño and Gloria Anzaldúa dropping acid and staring into the sun....
The Pain and Pleasure of Creating Worlds in Ayşegül Savaş’s “Walking on the Ceiling”
Lori Brister appreciates Ayşegül Savaş’s “Walking on the Ceiling,” a lyrical debut novel “heavily marked by grief.”...
The Beauty of Men: Ocean Vuong’s “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous," the debut novel from poet Ocean Vuong, demands a different way of looking and valuing what is seen....
Failing Better: A Conversation with Ocean Vuong
Viet Thanh Nguyen talks with Ocean Vuong about the urgency of poetry, family inheritance, and the refugee experience....
Loneliness, Resurrection, and Taxidermy: A Conversation with Kristen Arnett
Bradley Sides talks to “Mostly Dead Things” novelist Kristen Arnett about Florida, loneliness, resurrection, and taxidermy....
All the World’s a Stage: On Yukio Mishima’s “Star”
Jan Wilm reviews Yukio Mishima's "Star," recently released by New Directions in a translation by Sam Bett....
The Scourge of Himpathy
Rachel Cline’s new novel takes on the psychology and politics of the #MeToo movement....
A Little Private Space: A Conversation with Heike Geissler
Kate Durbin speaks to Heike Geissler, author of the autofictional novel “Seasonal Associate,” translated from German by Katy Derbyshire....
Parallel Deterioration: On Brian Evenson’s “Song for the Unraveling of the World”
In “Song for the Unraveling of the World,” Brian Evenson renders the world as a place of infinite and paralyzing delusion....
No Filters: On Kathleen Collins’s “Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary”
Trisha R. Thomas is inspired by “Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary,” the posthumous collection of Kathleen Collins’s writing edited by Nina Lorez Collins....
Navigating the Dark Corners: Karen Russell’s “Orange World and Other Stories”
Claire Kim looks at the alluring, dark tales in Karen Russell’s new short story collection, “Orange World and Other Stories.”...
Writing About Binyavanga Wainaina
On the Kenyan author’s rich — and discomfiting — intellectual legacy....
