DARK NEIGHBOURHOOD marks the arrival of an uncompromising talent
Inventive, poetic, energetic, uncomfortable and uncompromising, Dark Neighbourhood marks the arrival of a singular talent.
Inventive, poetic, energetic, uncomfortable and uncompromising, Dark Neighbourhood marks the arrival of a singular talent.
BOX HILL Adam Mars-Jones (Fitzcarraldo Editions) If Tom Of Finland had grown up in deepest Surrey in the 1970s, his homoerotic sketches of muscly motorcyclists and police officers might’ve resembled …
VIVIAN Christina Hesselholdt, trans. Paul Russell Garrett (Fitzcarraldo Editions) Vivian Maier lived and died in relative obscurity, working as a nanny for middle-class families in Chicago and New York, with …
ASH BEFORE OAK Jeremy Cooper (Fitzcarraldo) Jeremy Cooper’s latest novel is often so realistic you could be forgiven for thinking it’s a memoir. But it’s fiction, excellent fiction, in the …
TELL THEM OF BATTLES, KINGS AND ELEPHANTS Mathias Énard (Fitzcarraldo Editions) Thoughtful and melancholy, this slim work from French novelist Mathias Énard may appear as a departure from the complexity …
LIMBO Dan Fox (Fitzcarraldo Editions) Dan Fox returns with another penetrating and subversive study into contemporary culture and its rabbit holes. His previous book, Pretentiousness: Why It Matters, argued the …
DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Fitzcarraldo Editions) From the winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize comes an acutely subversive …
A TERRIBLE COUNTRY Keith Gessen (Fitzcarraldo Editions) A Terrible Country follows the story of Andrei Kaplan, a Russian who emigrated to America, as he returns to Moscow to look after his …
Rainald Goetz, trans: Adrian Nathan West (Fitzcarraldo) Never has a book title been so apt. Insane is an enjoyable and extremely disturbing examination of everyday life in an asylum. Originally published …