The Catalogue of Lost Things
Some favorite passages from the many new releases that wound up on our desks this July and August.
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Some favorite passages from the many new releases that wound up on our desks this July and August.
The supernatural is mundane in these must-read magical realism and fabulism novels, from historical fantasy inspired by Taino mythology to anticolonial spec fic.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably spent way too much time getting fascinated by the bizarre creatures in fantasy books, sci-fi movies, or video games. Giant insects, glow...
This vacation carries a terrible curse... The post A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing: Nadia Bulkin’s “Things to Know Before You Go” appeared first on Reactor.
Arthur Eddington on the Strange Gap Between Science and Experience
There is a particular pleasure in lost objects. We know it in ordinary life: the small shock of finding again what had vanished, the almost absurd intensity of a key, a ring, a pho...
Ten years ago, readers were introduced to a remarkable crop of books that would go on to shape contemporary African literature in ways few could have predicted. Yaa Gyasi arrived w...
Also: Tori Amos with Bartees Strange, the French dancer Hugo Marchand, a play about the House Un-American Activities Committee, and more.
I so often find myself inspired not by a specific event, but by a series of news stories, a pattern to conversations I’m having with friends, a rash of films about the same subject...
The title of Jaclyn Desforges’s new book of short fiction, Weird Babies, is absolutely appropriate. These stories are about childhood and motherhood, and they are strange. Strange...
It’s been almost a decade since Ruskovich published her debut novel, Idaho (2017), a lyrical, kaleidoscopic narrative about the murder of a young girl. Her new collection is quiete...
'Pemi Aguda, One Leg on Earth (Norton 5/26) Dark fantasy novel set in Lagos, a place of opportunity, but urban development has a price. Yosoye, 23 and eager to start her new job...
Things get bizarre and dangerous in Bizarro: Year None #2, The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #5, and Harley Quinn #63.
A skinless Boo Hag and many other truly terrifying creepy creatures, depicted in garishly lit detail, lunge and grimace directly at viewers in this unusually wide-ranging set of su...
Hofstadter and Dennett on the Strange Loop of Self and Consciousness
The final book in the author’s Harlem Trilogy is out now; read our recommendations from his œuvre.
Once, very stoned around a campfire, I asked my friends what fire was. One scientifically minded member of the group offered a dutiful-if-also-stoned explanation about chemical bon...
Dad Era, by Jordan Abel (Coach House Books)"I used to think my only path in life as to drop out of/ school and start dealing cocaine with your/ Uncle Lee and now I regularly buy/ s...
While I worked on my debut novel, Welcome to Sunny Town, about a group of dysfunctional expats living in Japan, I was constantly on the hunt for books about travel, impermanence, a...
1. Christopher Priest and Nina Allan, The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J.G. Ballard. Priest died before he finished this book, and his widow added material, incl...
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