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Scrapbook of a Rio Neighborhood

By Cory Oldweiler

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Of Things to Come | The Legacy of Elena Garro

By Cory Oldweiler

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If You Care to Go, I Will Follow

By Andy Davidson

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Cracking the Code of Female Loneliness

By Laura Albert

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Fear and Love Are like Two Fires

By Cory Oldweiler

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Extreme Makeover, Gothic Edition

By Adrian Van Young

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The Long-Drawn-Out Finale in which We Now Live | Daniel Saldaña París’s The Dance and the Fire

By Cory Oldweiler

The Long-Drawn-Out Finale in which We Now Live | Daniel Saldaña París’s <em>The Dance and the Fire</em>

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Blessed Are the Composers | Rereading Frank Stanford in the Light of Truth

By Elijah Burrell

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Sick and Tired of Seeing Things as They Are | Michael Bible’s Little Lazarus

By Grayson Haver Currin

Sick and Tired of Seeing Things as They Are | Michael Bible’s <em>Little Lazarus</em>

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Difficulty Is Satisfying | Lisa Carver’s Lover of Leaving

By Danielle Chelosky

Difficulty Is Satisfying | Lisa Carver’s <em>Lover of Leaving</em>

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An Orgiastic Outburst of Violence and Bloodshed | Evelio Rosero’s House of Fury

By Cory Oldweiler

An Orgiastic Outburst of Violence and Bloodshed | Evelio Rosero’s <em>House of Fury</em>

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The End Is Always Pending | Dan Leach’s Junah at the End of the World

By Ryan Ridge

The End Is Always Pending | Dan Leach’s <em>Junah at the End of the World</em>

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Unhinged! | Mark Leyner Gets the Reader Treatment

By Kevin Sampsell

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Textbook Trash Human | Paula Bomer’s The Stalker

By Mila Jaroniec

Textbook Trash Human | Paula Bomer’s <em>The Stalker</em>

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A Rare Breed of Listener | Ben Ratliff’s Run the Song

By Sam Hockley-Smith

A Rare Breed of Listener | Ben Ratliff’s <em>Run the Song</em>

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A Couple without Qualities | Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection

By Conor Truax

A Couple without Qualities | Vincenzo Latronico’s <em>Perfection</em>

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A Fresh Blend of Southern Gothic Weirdness | Julia Elliott’s Hellions

By Adrian Van Young

A Fresh Blend of Southern Gothic Weirdness | Julia Elliott’s <em>Hellions</em>

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Cartoon Liberation | Robert Crumb and His Times

By Jeet Heer

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The Inexorable Logic of the Witch Hunt | Eduardo Sangarcía’s The Trial of Anna Thalberg

By Kat Solomon

The Inexorable Logic of the Witch Hunt | Eduardo Sangarcía’s <em>The Trial of Anna Thalberg </em>

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Desperate Searchers | Andrés Felipe Solano’s Gloria

By Cory Oldweiler

Desperate Searchers | Andrés Felipe Solano’s <em>Gloria</em>

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The Voices of Adriana | The Latest Novel by Elvira Navarro

By Cory Oldweiler

<em>The Voices of Adriana</em> | The Latest Novel by Elvira Navarro

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A Bonkers Artist Heart | Emmalea Russo’s Vivienne

By R. M. N. Landry

A Bonkers Artist Heart | Emmalea Russo’s <em>Vivienne</em>

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Words Fail Me | Nathan Dragon’s The Champ

By Stephen Mortland

Words Fail Me | Nathan Dragon’s <em>The Champ</em>

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Variations on a Ghost Ship

By María José Navia (Translated by Will Vanderhyden)

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Human Highlight Reels | Sean Ennis’s Hope and Wild Panic

By Ryan Ridge

Human Highlight Reels | Sean Ennis’s <em>Hope and Wild Panic</em>

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The Incompetence of a Well-Read Man | Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest Is Silence

By Efrén Ordóñez Garza

The Incompetence of a Well-Read Man | Augusto Monterroso’s <em>The Rest Is Silence</em>

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Nightmares in the Language of Kitsch | David Leo Rice’s The Berlin Wall

By K Hank Jost

Nightmares in the Language of Kitsch | David Leo Rice’s <em>The Berlin Wall</em>

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Metafiction, Magical Realism, & Mourning

By Adrian Van Young

Music | Reviews

The Story of a Band and Its Ashes

By Madison Ford

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No hay tierras prometidas | Julia Kornberg’s Berlin Atomized

By Cory Oldweiler

No hay tierras prometidas | Julia Kornberg’s <em>Berlin Atomized</em>

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No Room of One’s Own | Dahlia de la Cerda’s Reservoir Bitches

By Mila Jaroniec

No Room of One’s Own | Dahlia de la Cerda’s <em>Reservoir Bitches</em>

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Life Is Made Up of Looking | Federico Falco’s The Plains

By Cory Oldweiler

Life Is Made Up of Looking | Federico Falco’s <em>The Plains</em>

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President-to-Be as Flâneur, New Orleans as Bolt-hole, Novelist as History’s Gap Filler

By J. R. Ramakrishnan

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Incubator Noir | Eli Cranor’s Broiler

By Travis Woods

Incubator Noir | Eli Cranor’s <em>Broiler</em>

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No Good Nights | Brian Evenson’s Good Night, Sleep Tight

By Andy Davidson

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The Sweetest Flowers from the Void | Gianni Washington’s Flowers from the Void
By R. J. Joseph

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Camilla Grudova’s Technicolor Freak Shows
By R. M. N. Landry

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Total Disgust Achieved | Emma E. Murray’s Crushing Snails
By Brandi Gaspard

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The Endless Horrors of an Unknowable Mind | Nathan Ballingrud’s Crypt of the Moon Spider
By Colin Sneed

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A Unique Example of Flat-Out Genius | Machado de Assis’s Quincas Borba
By Federico Perelmuter

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The Febrile Imagination of Andrés Neuman
By Cory Oldweiler

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Motherhood Is a Life Sentence | Claudia Piñeiro’s Time of the Flies
By Lori Feathers

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The Sense of Being a Boomerang | Daniel Saldaña París’s Planes Flying over a Monster
By Caroline Tracey

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Jillian Luft’s Modern Romance
By Shy Watson

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Remixing the Dead | Mateo García Elizondo’s Last Date in El Zapotal
By Atenea Cruz (Translated by Ellen Jones)

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América para El Americano
By Hiram Ruvalcaba

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A Garden Full of Monsters
By Dustin Illingworth

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The Kinetic Spell of Arthur Russell
By Sam Hockley-Smith

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Hell Is a Teenage Girl | Juliet Escoria’s You Are the Snake
By Mila Jaroniec

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Animated Profundity | Kit Schluter’s Cartoons
By Ryan Ridge

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Abandoned Dogs | Rodrigo Blanco Calderón’s Simpatía
By Michael Schaub

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Brenda Navarro | Two Voices in the Dark
By Julián Herbert (Translated by Robin Myers)

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Copi’s Queens
By Federico Perelmuter

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Machinic, Unloving, Graceless | Peter Vack’s Sillyboy
By Conor Hultman

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A Cure for Loneliness | Charlee Dyroff’s Loneliness and Company
By Drew Broussard

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A Gothic Fable of Female Revenge | Layla Martínez’s Woodworm
By Cory Oldweiler

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The Mind of All of Us | Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s American Abductions
By Wilson McBee

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A Humble Tribute to My Land | Selva Almada’s Not a River
By Cory Oldweiler

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A Kind of Lostness | Clemens Meyer’s While We Were Dreaming
By Burke Nixon

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Perfectly Imperfect | Two Books for Analog Aficionados
By Sam Hockley-Smith

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Trust in the Whispers of the Universe and Persevere | Mallory Smart’s I Keep My Visions to Myself
By Mila Jaroniec

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Lost in a Desert Fever Dream | Clyo Mendoza’s Fury
By Cory Oldweiler

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A Neo-Baroque Carnival | Sergio Pitol’s Taming the Divine Heron
By Daniel Saldaña París

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Art Monster | Margarita García Robayo’s The Delivery
By Kat Solomon

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A New Voice in the Worldwide Weird | Bernardo Esquinca’s The Secret Life of Insects
By Adrian Van Young

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We See What We Want to See | Brian Allen Carr’s Bad Foundations
By Robert Warf

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Her Story Must Be Told | Patrícia Melo’s The Simple Art of Killing
By Ariel Ramchandani

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Weaving a Story of Friendship, Stitch by Stitch | Jazmina Barrera’s Cross-Stitch
By Jude Burke-Lewis

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Liberation, Freedom, and Goodness | Sasha Frere Jones’s Earlier
By Sam Hockley-Smith

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The Absence of Choice | Sara Gallardo’s January
By Cory Oldweiler

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Dark Hilarity | Luis Felipe Fabre’s Recital of the Dark Verses
By Carmen Boullosa (Translated by Samantha Schnee)

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Teaching a Wound to Speak | Tiffany Morris’s Green Fuse Burning
By Joe Koch

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How Do You Desire to Be Haunted? | Adrian Van Young’s Midnight Self
By Corey Farrenkopf

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A Wild Danse Macabre | Tex Gresham’s Violent Candy
By Conor Hultman

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Tales of Sex and Death | In Celebration of Lisa Tuttle
By Lisa Kröger

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The Modern-Day Family in Bleak, Bloody Freefall | Max Booth III’s Abnormal Statistics
By Adrian Van Young

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The Horror of the Quotidian | Giovanna Rivero’s Fresh Dirt from the Grave
By Sam Krieg

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Of Monsters and Women | Aurora Venturini’s Cousins
By Jude Burke-Lewis

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What Was Found and Who Was Lost | Drew Buxton’s So Much Heart
By Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster

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Birds Are Also Free to Walk | Diane Williams’s I Hear You’re Rich
By Gavin Thomson

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Pure, Entertaining Thinking | Dave Marsh’s Kick out the Jams
By Sam Hockley-Smith

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Naked Wives and Surprising Penises | Ed Templeton’s Wires Crossed
By Kyle Beachy

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Master of the Minimal | Babak Lakghomi’s South
By Nathan Dragon

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In Praise of Messy Creation | Carmen Boullosa’s The Book of Eve
By Kat Solomon

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Unsafe, Unthinkable You | B. R. Yeager’s Burn You the Fuck Alive
By Joe Koch

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Some Movies Are Made Timeless | Scout Tafoya on John Ford
By William Boyle

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The Enlightenment of Augusto Higa Oshiro
By Federico Perelmuter

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