Opening the Gate
The Ivorian novelist Edwige Renée-DRO talks about the wealth of writing talent and the weakness of Africa’s publishing infrastructure
Continental Drift
The European Union is a grand act of forgetting, but, in the novels of Ágota Kristóf, the violence of Europe's past keeps coming back to the surface
Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part Two
The Post-Exotic novel wants to destroy reality. The second half of Antoine Volodine's essay on the form of the novel, its destruction and its reconstruction
Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part One
The post-exotic novel offers lessons in attacking the strictures of official literature
Adventures in Candyland
Tom McCarthy’s new novel is attentive to the fibers of our social networks, but forgetful of its fleshy reader
The New Kid
Joseph Harms’s debut novel of high school depravity Baal is trying too hard in all the right ways