An Invite to Eternity, Gary Budden and Marian Womack, et al.
Humanity is facing a challenge if a magnitude ever before seen, compromising new anxieties we are at times unable to … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Books
Bridge 108, Anne Charnock
Bridge 108 is a “disturbing, near-future novel” about a young climate refugee who is trafficked into slavery in the north of … Continue reading →
Mountains Piled Upon Mountains, Edited by Jessica Cory
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to … Continue reading →
Sarah R. Baughman’s The Light in the Lake
The Light in the Lake by Sarah R. Baughman (Little Brown, 2019) Middle Grade Fiction Review by Kimberly Christensen In … Continue reading →
The Hills Reply, Tarjei Vesaas
Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan Tarjei Vesaas’s final work before his death, this episodic novel drifts between dream-like abstraction and vivid … Continue reading →
Tears of the Trufflepig, Fernando A. Flores
Near future. South Texas. Narcotics are legal and there’s a new contraband on the market: ancient Olmec artifacts, shrunken indigenous … Continue reading →
Lion City, Ng Yi-Sheng
These are the exquisitely strange tales of Lion City, the first collection of short fiction by award-winning poet and playwright … Continue reading →
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (originally titled Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych). Man Booker International Prize Nominee (2019). Olga is also a … Continue reading →
Disappearing Earth, Julia Phillips
It’s possible, though, that novelists are responding to the effects of climate change in ways other than direct representation…Julia Phillips’s … Continue reading →
Wolfe Island, Lucy Treloar
Part western, part lament for a disappearing world, Wolfe Island (set off the northeast coast of the US) is a transporting novel … Continue reading →