The Vegetarian

I'm not sure which choice The Vegetarian makes more horrifying: eating meat, or not. When a young Korean woman makes a simple decision—she won't eat meat, and she can't bear to have it in her apartment—and sticks to it with as much stubbornness, and as little explanation, as Melville's Bartleby, she draws to herself a cyclone of violence and desire. The Vegetarian is a horror story stripped down to its barest elements, told in a three-part structure that lets in just enough air to let you contemplate its strange and unsettling madness before the walls close in for good. In other words, I liked it!