Critics have called Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez a queen of horror, and since the publication of her gorgeous, monstrous novel “Our Share of Night,” fans have turned her into a literary rock star. Her new short story collection, “A Sunny Place for Shady People,” delivers another striking performance. Read more
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Booker Prize winner Flanagan (Toxic) weaves strands about his parents, Australian history, and the atomic bomb into a mesmerizing narrative tapestry in this dazzling, one-of-a-kind memoir. Read more
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Read investigative journalist Pishko’s carefully reported history, and you’ll appreciate how spot-on Jon Hamm’s evilly unlawful lawman Roy Tillman was in the 2023-24 season of the drama Fargo. One of Pishko’s archetypes is Arizona sheriff Mark Lamb, who proclaims to his constituents, “Sheriffs are the last line of defense in this country. We don’t work for anybody but you.” But that’s not really true: whether directly or not, and whether knowingly or not, he works for a network of extremist right-wing groups, most based in the West and grounded in the John Birch Society and its offshoots, “who all believed that the county sheriff was the only legitimate law enforcement.” Read more
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In the spirit of Progressive Era muckrakers, Michel, an investigative journalist and author of American Kleptocracy, reveals the shamelessness, venality, and moral turpitude of those who work to influence federal legislators and the public in order to advance antidemocratic foreign interests. Read more
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With exquisite prose, smart lines on every page, a building sense of growing strangeness tinged with dread, and surprises all the way to the end, State of Paradise might be van den Berg’s best novel so far — and that’s saying a lot. A narrative that constantly feels like its dancing on the border between fiction and nonfiction despite all the weirdness it contains, this book is at once an adventure and a treat, a deep study of Florida’s psychogeography and a creepy story about ghosts, missing people, cults, and technology. Don’t miss it. Read more
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McFarlane is a master at just about everything: dialogue, setting, comic timing. One of her best stories, “Podcast,” is a spot-on send-up of a true-crime podcast, with its giddy silliness and flashes of compassion for the victims (McFarlane has said that these stories were partially inspired by a podcast she followed during the pandemic). But her biggest accomplishment is creating an empathic bond with people whose lives are touched by unexplainable violence. Read more
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The volume is shot through with genuine pathos and astute social commentary, and Reyes shifts effortlessly from absurdism to satire to sci-fi. These dynamic tales herald the arrival of a promising new talent. Read more
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In “The Bookshop,” Evan Friss offers lively profiles of booksellers and the stores they’ve overseen, from the 18th century to today. Read more
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Elle Reeve’s powerful Black Pill brings members of the internet’s most vicious, infamous hate groups out of the shadows, exposing the roots of extremism. Read more
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Watson’s stories—those in the volumes published in his lifetime and the new ones—are wry, tender, darkly funny, and deeply idiosyncratic. Read more
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