New and Notable Fiction for June

by Carlos Franz translated by Leland H. Chambers

Dark, brilliant and disturbing. Let’s hope this first U.S. publication for Chilean novelist Franz will be followed by many... Full review >

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by Shann Ray

Think Hemingway or Jim Harrison, and know that Ray's collection is the deserving winner of the Bread Loaf Writers'... Full review >

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by Kate Christensen

A masterpiece of comedy and angst. Think Gulley Jimson of Joyce Cary’s The Horses Mouth transported from 1930s London to... Full review >

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by David Ignatius

A terrific, believable novel about the intersection of politics, ethics and finance. Full review >

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by Johan Harstad & translated by Deborah Dawkin

A modern saga of rocketships, ice floes and dreams of the Caribbean, and great fun to read. Full review >

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by Daniel Orozco

Precisely written, deeply human stories. Full review >

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by Amit Majmudar

Written with piercing beauty, alive with moral passion and sorrowful insight—a rueful masterpiece. Full review >

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by Reavis Z. Wortham

Not just scary but funny too, as Wortham nails time and place in a sure-handed, captivating way. There’s a lot of good stuff... Full review >

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by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

To read this novel is to enter a Borgesian rabbit hole—it’s a fiction that purports to tell the truth obscured by another... Full review >

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by Carol Birch

Jaffy’s experience could well move the reader as profoundly as it changed the narrator. Full review >

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