Staff Picks: And China Has Hands
Celia recommends And China Has Hands by H.T. Tsiang: Here’s a book I was delighted to discover, reprinted in a lovely edition by Kaya Press: And China Has Hands, by H.T. Tsiang. It’s something of an...
View ArticleStaff Picks: A King Alone
Celia recommends A King Alone by Jean Giono: I slid into this novel first through its language. So: “Everything piles up on us; nothing moves. Green at first, the light turns the color of hare innards,...
View ArticleStaff Picks: The Milk Bowl of Feathers
Claire recommends: The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings, edited, with an introduction, by Mary Ann Caws The Milk Bowl of Feathers is Mary Ann Caws’ most recent addition to the...
View ArticleStaff Picks: The Word Pretty
Julie recommends The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert: Seasoned poet Elisa Gabbert flexes her sentence-making strength in her debut essay collection. Fun, witty, and filled with clear-eyed observations,...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Harbart
Celia recommends Harbart by Nabarun Bhattacharya: Every ghost story is a story about how the past isn’t over yet. The murder that went unavenged is still felt, says the ghost, as is the last wish that...
View ArticleStaff Picks: The Musical Brain
Claire recommends The Musical Brain by César Aira: My first foray into the wild mechanics of Aira’s fiction, this collection of short stories feels like it has been spun out of the webby brainwaves of...
View ArticleStaff Picks: The Corner that Held Them
Celia recommends The Corner that Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner: It only takes a few pages for this book to bewilder you. The Corner that Held Them begins with Alianor de Retteville, a...
View ArticleStaff Picks: I Used to Be Charming
Julie recommends I Used to Be Charming by Eve Babitz: I’ve read everything by Eve Babitz except for her nonfiction books Fiorucci, the Book; and Two by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night, and...
View ArticleStaff Picks: The Bog People
Celia recommends The Bog People by P.V. Glob: Have you heard the story of the bog bodies, dear reader? It begins long ago and far away, and is the kind of tale you might want to read in the dark of the...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Advantages of Being Evergreen
Claire recommends: Advantages of Being Evergreen by Oliver Baez Bendorf Advantages of Being Evergreen was the winner of the 2018 CSU Poetry Center Open Book Competition, selected by Samuel Amadon,...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Insel
Celia recommends Insel by Mina Loy: Mina Loy, of the many names! Most people who know her, I think, know her as a poet, for her volume Lunar Baedeckers. But she was also, by turns, an artist, novelist,...
View ArticleStaff Picks: The Factory
Celia recommends The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada: There’s a Lauren Berlant quotation that I think of sometimes, which goes like this: in the face of a life that isn’t meaningful, there is a “life drive...
View ArticleStaff Picks: INRI
Claire recommends INRI by Raúl Zurita, translated from the Spanish by William Rowe: My first foray into the NYRB Poetry series and into the work of Chilean poet Raúl Zurita, and let me say: I’m...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Stalingrad
Celia recommends Vassily Grossman’s Stalingrad, in numbered segments: During the Battle of Stalingrad, where he was a war reporter for Krasnaya Zvevda, Vassily Grossman wrote a letter to his daughter,...
View ArticleStaff Picks: The Book of X
Kelsey recommends The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter: Sarah Rose Etter’s debut novel, The Book of X, is set in an experience that seems like a typical “nuclear” domestic life—a mother, a father, a...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times from Ask Baba Yaga
JP Poole recommends Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times from Ask Baba Yaga by Taisia Kitaiskaia Taisia Kitaiskaia has been channeling the voice of a witch for seven years. Beginning with an advice...
View ArticleStaff Picks: The Factory and The Hole
Down the Rabbit Hole: The Strange and Wonderful World of Hiroko Oyamada by JP Poole Reading the novels of Hiroko Oyamada is a bit like walking into a test kitchen. Amidst the hustle and bustle, you...
View ArticleStaff Picks: The Age of Skin
The Age of Skin by Dubravka Ugresic by JP Poole My copy of Dubravka Ugresic’s The Age of Skin is highlighted, underlined, and peppered throughout with asterisks, exclamation marks, and messy notes....
View ArticleMalvern’s 2020 Fiction Bestsellers
If you’d like to add a brilliant novel to your next curbside order, here’s a handy list of our fourteen bestselling fiction titles in 2020. These are presented in no particular order—but if you’re...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Don’t Try This at Home
Don’t Try This at Home by Angela Readman by JP Poole The first sign that Don’t Try This as Home isn’t your typical short story collection is the whirl of jackalopes on the cover. The second is the...
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