The New Vanguard -

The New Vanguard -
This is a novel with dozens of topics on its mind: speed
and sex, reality and counterreality, art and intellect, politics and fear, and perhaps above all — a subject too often left solely in male hands — “the fine lubricated violence of an internal combustion engine.” — Dwight Garner
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Mysterious afflictions stalk the land, ghosts of women conceal themselves in the seams of prom dresses, a
wife struggles to keep her husband from removing a ribbon she keeps strategically tied around her neck.
Read The Times’s review of “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay,” Book 3 of The Neapolitan Novels
At the heart of Borges’s short story “The Aleph” is a dead woman, forced to stay silent even as the plot orbits around her.
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“Outline” is a crisp, poised and cerebral novel that has little in the way of straightforward plot yet is transfixing in its unruffled awareness of the ways we love
and leave each other, and of what it means to listen to other people.
Read The Times’s review of “How Should a Person Be?”
Don’t be fooled by the innocuous title; Han Kang’s triptych of a novel, translated by Deborah Smith, is surreal, shocking and savage.
Read The Times’s review of “The Vegetarian”
Rachel Kushner’s “The Flamethrowers” unfolds on a bigger, brighter screen than nearly any recent American novel.