Like Pynchon, Beauman wrings paranoia and gags from a dark confluence of American state and corporate power, yet unlike Pynchon, Beauman only seems interested in mining the material for superficial laughs.
Curtis White gives a hilarious display of creative destruction.
The overarching theme is of a tactical approach to love and romance; the protagonists must all negotiate social restrictions, in varying degrees of good faith, to achieve their goals.
Hunt turns the domestic inside out to find the supernatural lurking within.
Alissa Nutting takes readers on a wild ride through the murky waters of love and Florida.
A visceral, intelligent look at the economy of evictions in New York's outer boroughs.
Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen is an atmospheric thriller with a seductively ugly narrative voice.
