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The Bitter Roots

Anticipating the historical fiction of Ivan Doig and Ken Kesey, Macleod vividly immerses the reader in the adolescent angst of one young man, and of a nation.

Game Without Rules

A clever marriage of the cold unease of Le Carré and the cozy charm of Christie, these highly addictive tales of intrigue will appeal to a wide range of readers; here’s hoping the duo’s other collection, Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens, gets reprinted soon.

Black Easter

Updating the earnest spiritual fantasy of Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis, Blish conjures a startlingly effective hellscape worthy of Hieronymus Bosch.

Weights and Measures

Roth’s psychological insight and complex moral vision, deftly captured in David Le Vay’s graceful 1982 translation, are distilled in this pitiable, poetic tragedy, which proceeds with the grim logic and economy of a fairy tale.
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Gentleman Jigger: A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance

Decades ahead of its time, this taboo-defying work of unproblematized queer Black identity is less successful as a novel than as a front-row seat to a momentous era, spent in the vibrant company of a truly original iconoclast.
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Office Politics

With a pitch-perfect ear for inner and outer dialogue and a searching wit as hilarious as it is humane, Sheed illuminates the dingiest and most discomfiting corners of that curious home away from home known as the office.

On Strike Against God

Vitriolic, vulnerable, polemical and devastatingly funny, Russ’s uncompromising tour de force bristles with trenchant truth-telling that will make it a life-changing encounter for many readers. Essential.
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To After That (TOAF)

Readers new to Gladman might better appreciate this elegy for her stillborn novel after first exploring her more conventionally unconventional fictions set in the surreal world of Ravicka, starting with Event Factory.

Fog & Car

The dark dreamlike veracity of Lim’s novel might be remindful of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch, Murakami and Auster, but its moving and revelatory insights into the mysteries of human nature are wholly his own.
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