(Los Angeles, CA: Unnamed Press 2020) Dark. Delicious. Smart and deeply literary. A novel of sublime prose and piquant wit, A Certain Hunger, by Chelsea G. Summers, is part psychological thriller, part unapologetic tale of sexual desire from a woman … Continued
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) If fiction exposes truth through the imaginary, Garth Greenwell’s novel Cleanness is a reimagining that splays open his characters’ secret selves, denudes them of pretense to tell hard, beautiful, human truths. … Continued
(Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2019) With a quill dipped in satire and tongue lodged in his cheek, Robert Burton wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy in the early 17th century. Ostensibly a medical text, he instead opined on the philosophies … Continued