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Andrew Martin is the author of Early Work, a novel, and Cool for America, a story collection. (May 2023)
The Documentarian
Zachary Lazar so convincingly blurs real and imaginary characters that his novels avoid objective truth altogether, even though their prose is written like a journalist’s.
The Apartment on Calle Uruguay
by Zachary Lazar
May 25, 2023 issue
Castle’s Kingdom
James Castle's drawings and constructions seem to have been beamed in from a parallel universe of art-making and do not easily yield their meanings.
James Castle: Memory Palace
by John Beardsley
January 13, 2022 issue
Deeper into the Labyrinth
Roberto Bolaño's posthumous books expand our sense of his novels and stories as a living system, as illogical and abrupt as the world we inhabit.
Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas
by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
The Spirit of Science Fiction
by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
March 25, 2021 issue
Getting Away With It
Nell Zink’s books are defined by a fervent restlessness, a desire to ignore the strictures that usually confine the contemporary novel.
Doxology
by Nell Zink
Nicotine
by Nell Zink
Private Novelist
by Nell Zink
Mislaid
by Nell Zink
The Wallcreeper
by Nell Zink
May 28, 2020 issue
Women on the Verge
Territory of Light
by Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt
Child of Fortune
by Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt
Woman Running in the Mountains
by Yuko Tsushima, translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt
September 26, 2019 issue
A More Personal Chile
Not to Read
by Alejandro Zambra, translated from the Spanish and edited by Megan McDowell
March 7, 2019 issue
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