Butterfly Lampshade is Aimee Bender’s first novel in a decade and the follow-up book to her incredible short story collection The Color Master (2013). A book about memory and isolation that we didn’t know we needed.
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Harrow the Ninth, second book in the Locked Tomb trilogy, is out on August 4th 2020
Guest contributor Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko reviews Tamsyn Muir’s sequel to “Gideon the Ninth.” Sequels are famously difficult and there is a lot of advice on doing it right. “Harrow the Ninth” is a book which looks at this advice, steeples its fingers together, and says, “Watch this.”
Read moreThe Author of “Cat Person”: Kristen Roupenian’s First Collection
Guest contributor M. Shaw reviews Roupenian’s studies in feminist horror.
Read moreNovels of No-Self
Author Jim Ringel discovers in Scott Smith’s The Ruins, Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian a different kind of eco-fiction.
Read moreRefusing Silence: A Review of Gabino Iglesias's "Coyote Songs"
Guest Contributor Manual Aragon reviews Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias. “[Iglesias] creates a world that I know, where language knows no barriers, no walls, and moves exactly where it is most comfortable.”
Read moreTime-Travelers, All of Us: Ben Lerner’s 10:04 and the Suffering of the Tangible
Guest contributor Alexander Lumans looks at author Ben Lerner's novel 10:04 and how everything will be as it is now, just a little different in.
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