Valeria Luiselli: Lost Children Archive
ArtsValeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive tells the story of a family by combining the American road trip subgenre with the Latin American tradition of an inward journey.
Elizabeth McCracken: Bowlaway
ArtsHer nature oppositional, Elizabeth McCracken’s Bowlaway is a sad, funny, hilarious, and melancholic novel.
Yiyun Li: Where Reasons End
ArtsIn Yiyun Li’s Where Reasons End, a mother discovers a place where she can talk to her son who committed suicide.
Marlon James: Black Leopard, Red Wolf: The Dark Star Trilogy
ArtsMarlon James discusses the endlessly beautiful and brutal world of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the first novel in The Dark Star Trilogy.
Chloe Aridjis: Sea Monsters
ArtsSea Monsters is a fascinatingly consistent and exquisitely shaped novel by Chloe Aridjis.
Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley: Permanent Green Light
ArtsBookworm alumnus Dennis Cooper, and collaborator Zac Farley, discuss the creative impulses behind their film Permanent Green Light.
Sam Lipsyte: Hark
ArtsA novel that presents ambiguity as a constant feature of modern life, Hark is a book full of tensions, written with Sam Lipsyte’s fine grain strangeness, and absent of easy…
Amanda Sthers: Holy Lands
ArtsA writer of ten novels in French, Holy Lands is the first novel by Amanda Sthers to appear in English, translated by herself.
