Fiction Archive
Spring by Ali Smith
To read a book by Ali Smith is to know that she will ask you to do some work, though that work will always be a pleasure and a bit of a game.
Let Me Out Here by Emily W. Pease
The South, to Emily Pease, is “beautiful and memory-rich, with a layer of dark.” The same could be said about her stories, though the layer of dark within is thick and permeates the whole—like the heat on an August day in the South, nothing is left untouched by it.
Article 353 by Tanguy Viel
Tanguy Viel’s new novel is not about poetic justice, but artifice.
Mother Country by Irina Reyn
Irina Reyn’s new novel begins in the middle of a complex history: Nadia Borodinskaya, a single mother, has been working tirelessly in the United States for the last seven years to bring her adult-aged daughter, Larisska, from war-torn Ukraine.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
From a city ensconced in massive treetops where no children are ever born, to a black market for human remains literally underground, Marlon James leads readers on a journey through an Africa western fantasy has long ignored.
Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen
Niviaq Korneliussen’s novel is short, only around two hundred pages, but it moves like a bullet: powerful, emotionally dense, and over much more quickly than I wanted it to be.
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
Mackintosh’s characters offer a representation of how young women deal with grief once a familial structure is undone, in the way of filling empty spaces that begin to present themselves.
The Day the Sun Died by Yan Lianke
Yan Lianke’s new novel asks: Are we dreamwalking through our entire lives?
Revolution Sunday by Wendy Guerra
Wendy Guerra, award-winning poet, novelist, actress, and television host, tackles surveillance, paranoia, and the instability of reality in her second novel translated into English.
The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila
Amparo Dávila’s collection is reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, and Edgar Allen Poe, and tests the limits of fiction.