New York. Bellevue Literary Press. 2019. 208 pages.
The invisible butler did it. That’s the high-concept vision of Spanish novelist Juan José Millás’s quirky, dark comedy From the Shadows. T…
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Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2019. 160 pages. Jakarta (Yakarta in the original Spanish) is a taut novel set in an unnamed city beset by plague and social unrest, where Mesoameri…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2019. 527 pages. In 2001’s Reality Hunger, David Shields mashed together quotes in a collage manifesto that praised antinarrative tendencies, antigenre hy…
Brooklyn, New York. Restless Books. 2018. 209 pages. To catalog the atrocities carried out in Emiliano Monge’s The Arid Sky is to be reminded that humanity will never run out of ways to infli…
Brooklyn. Restless Books. 2016. 256 pages. Juan Villoro knows that soccer fans often enjoy rewatching and recounting a spectacular goal more than seeing it for the first time. Reading God Is Roun…
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