An Untamed State
Roxane Gay's debut opens with a line that functions as both premise and warning: "Once upon a time, in a far-off land, I was…
Retailers that deliver to: USPreparation for the Next Life
A decade on from its publication by the tiny and now-defunct Tyrant Books, Atticus Lish's debut novel still reads like something stumbled upon…
A Questionable Shape
A Questionable Shape opens with: "What we know about the undead so far is this: they return to the familiar." From there, Bennett…
The Panopticon
Jenni Fagan's debut novel arrives announcing a voice so fully formed it almost seems implausible as a first book. The Panopticon drops us into…
We the Animals
Justin Torres's debut novel arrives in a form that feels almost impossibly compact - 125 or so pages of discontinuous vignettes that somehow…
The Salt Path
The Salt Path opens under the weight of catastrophe. Within the space of days, Raynor Winn and her husband Moth lose their farm, their livelihood,…
The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven
There is no way to discuss this book honestly without addressing the elephant in the room: in 2015, Alex Malarkey - the boy whose name is on the…
Love and Consequences
Any honest assessment of Love and Consequences has to reckon with two books at once - the gripping story on the page and the spectacular fraud…
Forbidden Love
Forbidden Love - published as Honor Lost in the United States - presents itself as the memoir of a Jordanian woman recounting the murder of her…
A Million Little Pieces
A Million Little Pieces opens with one of the most arresting scenes in modern addiction literature. A 23-year-old man wakes on a plane with no…
The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams
Any honest assessment of this book has to grapple with two things at once - the quality of the prose on the page and the catastrophic fraud behind…
Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years
It is impossible to review Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years without confronting the controversy - this book is a confirmed fabrication,…
