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Award-Winning Argentinian Novelist Betina González’s ‘American Delirium’ Climbs and Weaves Like a Vine

Award-Winning Argentinian Novelist Betina González’s ‘American Delirium’ Climbs and Weaves Like a Vine

In award-winning Argentinian novelist Betina González’s ‘American Delirium’, the storylines tend to flirt with the uncertain borderline demarcating the merely zany from the farcical.

Murder Is Most Factorial in ‘Eighth Detective’

Murder Is Most Factorial in ‘Eighth Detective’

Mathematician Alex Pavesi's debut novel, The Eighth Detective, posits mathematical rules defining 'detective fiction'.

Is ‘The Unsuitable’ Comedy? Horror? Or Something Else?

Is ‘The Unsuitable’ Comedy? Horror? Or Something Else?

Molly Pohlig's debut novel, The Unsuitable, applies a different twist to a guilty conscience.

‘Famous People’ Splashes in the Puddle of a Shallow Pop Star

‘Famous People’ Splashes in the Puddle of a Shallow Pop Star

When our protagonist is calm and reflective in Justin Kuritzkes' Famous People, there's a sense of potential intelligence beneath the shiny surface.

Is Social Media Facing Its Biggest Existential Threat?

Is Social Media Facing Its Biggest Existential Threat?

Jaron Lanier says we should delete our social media accounts, yet it's not social media per se, but the way in which it presently exists, that Lanier is concerned about. But Lanier is overlooking a critical factor in our social media addiction.

Susan Choi’s ‘Trust Exercise’ Demands the Reader’s Restraint

Susan Choi’s ‘Trust Exercise’ Demands the Reader’s Restraint

Does the experience of reading Susan Choi's Trust Exercise leave us with anything but frustration? Is it all tease and no release?