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The hero of Tom McCarthy’s new novel moves through a broken world in which technology is both a wonder and a threat.Avant-garde art elicits a range of reactions, but delight is rarely one of them. Even...
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In a Strange Room
“In every story of obsession there is only one character. I am writing about myself alone… for this reason I have always failed in every love, which is to say at the very heart of my life.”Storytellers...
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The Marriage Artist
In Andrew Winer’s insightful novel, an art critic struggles with his wife’s infidelity and suicide, and a painter deals with life in Hitler’s concentration camp by creating Jewish marriage...
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A Clouded Thing
Jaimy Gordon’s National Book Award-winning novel conveys the hard-knock world of horseracing in a style reminiscent of Walker Percy and Mark Twain.While in England covering the horse races at Ascot for...
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The Rumpus Interview with Téa Obreht
Let’s get the age stuff out of the way. Téa Obreht was the youngest member, at 24, of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” in their most recent Summer Fiction Issue. Her short story, “The Laugh” was...
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The Tiger’s Wife
John Wilwol reviews Tea Obreht’s new novel, The Tiger’s Wife, which vibrates with the low rumble of unanswered and unanswerable questions that keeps us up at night.It feels weird to think that a...
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Georgia Bottoms
In Mark Childress’s latest novel, Georgia Bottoms, his eponymous heroine is a mash-up of Southern women from popular culture, but that is no reason not to read it.About a third of the way through Mark...
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The Eyes of Ginger Pritt
The first novel from poet Rebecca Wolff, The Beginners is a coming-of-age tale told in riveting prose.Rebecca Wolff’s evocative first novel is gorgeously told through the eyes of Ginger Pritt, a...
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