Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart’s sardonic work has always been a dark, lovely, and fun experience for me. I follow his work closely, … More

Eat A Peach by David Chang

I love David Chang as a man and as a cook. His restaurants, cookbooks, and insane workaholic schedule as a … More

Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, László Krasznahorkai’s Farewell Triumph

Throughout the past hundred and fifty years or so, as the stage for modernism was set and more and more … More

Cherry by Nico Walker

A modern masculine novel of war, drugs, sex, and crime, Cherry is one of those quiet, masculine novels with an … More

Middle C by William Gass

Should humanity, in all of its cruelty, be allowed to endure? Such is the repeated refrain of William Gass’ Middle … More

Riding With The Ghost by Justin Taylor

Justin Taylor’s Riding with the Ghost takes its title from a Jason Molina song of the same name, and explores … More

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

Something influenced me to pick up my first novel by Russell Hoban. Perhaps it was an article in the NYT … More

Fraternity by Benjamin Nugent

In his newest collection of short fiction, Ben Nugent has captured the spirit of America’s disassociation with the true gravity … More

Static in the Jungle: “Ducks, Newburyport” by Lucy Ellmann

The sheer contemporariness of this book in terms of what it is about, how it is executed, and the meanderings … More