The Memory Police
A tale about an island where vanishing is ordinary, and remembering is dangerous.
Fiction
20 books
Mostly novels that do something unexpected with form or voice. Primarily from small presses, often slim, often in translation.
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
Bennett’s writing about love and memory catches you mid-air.
War and Turpentine
Spanning multiple war-ridden decades of the 20th century, Hertmans’ reconstruction of his grandfather's life is lovingly layered.
Open City
Open City is a novel that reads like a great essay might, pulling in references to art, music, literature and history, and building a collage that invites further discovery beyond its pages.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Humour and heartbreak trade blows against a backdrop of a family’s quiet collapse.
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
I finished reading this book more than a week ago and it keeps running loops inside my mind, its eyes glazed over, its arms outstretched before it.
The Alternatives
Four sisters, three PhDs, and a family quietly coming apart.
The Repeat Room
In this society of interchangeable robes, telescreens and plastic trays, the machinery of state violence is described with frightening precision.
