A Fierce and Subtle Poison
by Samantha Mabry
MADE-UP
At the end of Calle Sol in Puerto Rico, the myth says, there's a cursed house consumed in plants, the home to a scientist and his daughter, a girl filled with poison and with green skin and grass for... (Karlyn)
Pumpkinflowers
by Matti Friedman
TRUE
You might pass by this book with a funny title about a forgotten episode in a region that brings more terrible news every day, but don't. If "Orwellian" were a term not of horror but praise—meaning a... (Tom)
This Is Not a Novel and Other Novels
by David Markson
MADE-UP
Markson's reputation—as a "writer's writer," as an experimentalist who favors Zen koan titles—might scare off casual readers, but if you look into one of his novels (or in the case of this newly repri... (Tom)
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