Madcap poetry collection Eunoia by Christian Bök, a Canadian experimental poet, is a major linguistic achievement. Published in 2001, it took him seven years to write and was (eventually) a bestseller in both Canada (where it w...

In Half as Happy, his second book of short stories, Gregory Spatz plays around, as his title suggests, with ideas of halves and doubles. His characters live with a constant sense of incompleteness, as if there is always someone...

I recently encountered the useful literary term “dirty realism.” It was coined by Bill Buford, former editor of Granta magazine, to describe American literature of the 1980s, including authors like Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff,...

  Where’d You Go, Bernadette  has a delightfully convoluted plot that will keep the reader second guessing the unpredictable characters and set off on a detective search for the illusive Bernadette. Set initially in ...

Wonder by R.J. Palacio is a novel about a character who describes himself as a normal kid. The child, August Pullman, does not have any disabilities, has a remarkably loving family, and does very well in school. The thing peopl...

Anne Carson’s Red Doc> (released March 5th from Knoph) is a follow-up to her acclaimed 1998 novel in verse, Autobiography of Red. It is part poem, part play/tragedy/opera, part novel, and it is what we have come to exp...

Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger is the first novel in the Finishing School steampunk series, and it is Carriger’s first novel for young adults. Summary Sophronia Temminnick often finds herself sneaking around dum...