Tag: Literary Fiction
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The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star is a short book but it was unusual enough that I’ll seek out more by Clarice Lispector
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The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş
In The Anthropologists, Ayşegül Savaş examines the mundane and minute moments in life in ways that make me want to pay closer attention to my own.
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10:04 by Ben Lerner
10:04 is almost excellent, sometimes eye-rollingly precious. I didn’t like this book but there’s a lot of it that’s brilliant.
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Hum by Helen Phillips
Hum struggles both as a near-future dystopia and as a family drama. The premise is a good one, but for me it didn’t deliver
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Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Little Rot is propulsive and intoxicating in setting and story, but the thin plot makes it somewhat forgettable
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My Friends by Hisham Matar
“Some books, like some people, are shy”
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Shattering, beautiful and essential
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Even better and more readable than I expected
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Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
I know when I’m beat
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The Trees by Percival Everett
What if Mel Brooks and Jordan Peele wrote an Elmore Leonard novel? This is unbelievably good.