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Focusing on a writer investigating a double murder with Satanic overtones, the novel asks uncomfortable questions about how and why we consume such gruesome material.
Stintzi’s novel traverses space, time, and a sprawling cast of characters in its attempt to allegorize our most profound challenges in the present.
Jonas constructs a narrative that examines campus power dynamics frankly without, for the most part, providing any tidy moral or lesson.
The novel, about a sentient AI that develops a relationship with a university therapist, examines ontological questions about what it is that makes us human.
With not one but two pirate incursions, a mutiny, and other onboard shenanigans, the novel offers a fast, noisy narrative.
Set in Montreal during the 1980s, the novel outlines the full range of the immigrant experience, from heartache to hope.
Grudova’s previous collection of short fiction was delightfully strange; the new novel appears to continue in this vein.
In his debut literary novel under his own name, Ruthnum provides a slippery, serpentine narrative that calls into question notions of identity and narrative stability.
Everett’s novel is about a Black intellectual who finds commercial success by writing a pandering, parodic work that gets taken at face value.
Neither of the houses in these two books is haunted in the traditional sense; the evil comes from the people and environs that surround them.