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Best Book of 2008: The Alphabet
Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout on why Ron Silliman's The Alphabet is the best book of 2008.
Best Book of 2015: After The Dance
Dimitry Elias Léger
Dimitry Elias Léger on why Jan Gaye's After the Dance is the best book of 2015.
Best Book of 2017: Shadowbahn
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem on why Steve Erickson's Shadowbahn is the best book of a year to come.
Best Story of 1965: ‘Everything That Rises Must Converge’
Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender on why Flannery O’Connor's ‘Everything That Rises Must Converge’ is the best story of 1965.
Bezoar
Guadalupe Nettel
‘This was the morning I discovered the anatomy of a hair.’ New fiction by Guadalupe Nettel, translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery.
Bicske
Joanna Walsh
‘For us, discomfort is a hard feeling. / Almost as hard as hate. / Almost as hard as fear.’
Blade Culture
Atticus Lish
‘As a kid, he played video games and roughhoused on the beach and joined a gang.’
Breach Candy
Samanth Subramanian
‘There are clubs like the Breach Candy Club all over the Indian subcontinent: relics of the Raj, institutions that were set up as bolt-holes for the British, where they could retreat to row or swim or play cricket or race horses.’
Budapest 2015
Wojciech Tochman
‘To the delight of the little kids, who had seen a good deal of killing in their lives, a middle-aged man blew soap bubbles.’
Cairo: September 2014
Wiam El-Tamami
‘Over the past few months, the government has been ad-libbing the time.’
Come Again/Woods
Maureen N. McLane
‘They party in the woods / as if they were meant for pleasure / not timber.’
