Book review - fiction

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors reviewed

An American Story, by Christopher Priest, reviewed

New collections by A.M. Homes, Joseph O’Neill, Christine Schutt, Margarita García Robayo and Gaito Gazdanov reviewed

A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen reviewed.

Borges’ muse paints a picture of suffocating isolation and voyeurism.

For all her wise-cracking, the history of parental neglect, bereavement and social savagery that has brought her low is genuinely affecting.

The second novel from Iraq War veteran Kevin Powers contains lots of gore, and the sort of casual violence that can be just as disturbing.

The author delicately slides from comedy to tragedy and back again, and from class to class.

For Horace Hopper, the half-breed protagonist of Willy Vlautin’s bleak new novel, essential truths come slowly, and usually too late to do him any good. Abandoned by his Native American mother and Irish American father, he has exiled himself from the only people who love him, an elderly couple on a sheep ranch in deepest … Read more