Vanishing Twins: A Marriage by Leah Dieterich Soft Skull Press, 2018 304 pages / Soft Skull To choose freedom against coupling is an unpopular preference, one not the least celebrated in…
Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America’s Forgotten Border by Porter Fox W. W. Norton, 2018 272 pages / Norton When I was 10 or 12 my cousin and I would accompany…
Living in Public by Uche Nduka Writers’ Collective of Kristiania, 2018 180 pages / Small Press Distribution I’m charmed by a phrase Joyelle McSweeney used in 2014 to describe a…
My Girl’s Green Jacket by Mary Meriam Headmistress Press, 2018 108 pages / Headmistress Every time one attempts to categorize or pigeonhole Mary Meriam’s poetry, one comes up against “it…
Baby, I Don’t Care by Chelsey Minnis Wave Books, 2018 272 pages / Wave The question is endlessly familiar to poetry but often less prevalent in the work of poet Chelsey…
Harry: That’s the lighthouse? Cybil: Nothing’s quite what you expect, is it? It begins with a warning: PSYCHOLOGY WARNING This video game psychologically profiles you as you play. It gets…
The Parting Gift by Evan Fallenberg Other Press, 2018 256 pages / Other Evan Fallenberg’s The Parting Gift is a slim, riveting novel that takes us deep into the classic…
Berlin, 1936: Sixteen Days in August by Oliver Hilmes The Bodley Head, 2018 320 pages / Penguin Random House Shortly after the end of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Adolph…
Man’s Wars & Wickedness: A Book of Proposed Remedies and Extreme Formulations for Curing Hostility, Rivalry, and Ill-Will by Amanda Ackerman & Harold Abramowitz Bon Aire Projects, 2017 218 pages /…
Permanent Exhibit by Matthew Vollmer BOA Editions, Ltd., 2018 200 pages / BOA The fragments that make up Permanent Exhibit by Matthew Vollmer read like memoir, like essays, like poetry. They…
People in the Room by Norah Lange And Other Stories, 2018 176 pages / And Other Stories For 2018, publisher And Other Stories made a commitment to only publish books by…
Stamped: an anti-travel novel by Kawika Guillermo Westphalia Press, 2018 346 pages / Westphalia Just a few weeks ago, I left China after spending almost a year in Chengdu, Sichuan.…
Lonely Men Club by Mike Kleine Inside the Castle, 2018 722 pages / Inside the Castle Made with his computer / MAGICIEN-NOIR / about the Zodiac Killer’s extra dimensional existence…
This town. It knows me. It showed me things. It wants me to finish this. Murphy Pendleton kills monsters. One of the most significant, most haunting lines of the Silent…