Reviews – Splice

REVIEWS

Rewrite It All

Lydia Bunt reviews Sarah Bernstein’s The Coming Bad Days.

Grotesque Physicalities

Daniel Green reviews Hugh Fulham-McQuillan’s Notes on Jackson and His Dead.

Everything Looks at Everything

Katie da Cunha Lewin reviews Rebecca Tamás’ Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman.

Finding Herselves

Charlotte Newman reviews Olja Knežević’s Catherine the Great and the Small.

“With high regard, though seldom played”

Chris Via reviews William Gaddis’ The Recognitions.

“Hey? You listening…?”

Chris Via reviews William Gaddis’ J R.

A Very Human Process

David Hebblethwaite reviews Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses.

Postcards From a Moving Image

Anna MacDonald reviews Ali Smith’s Summer.

The View From Nowhere

Daniel Green reviews Catherine Lacey’s Pew.

A Perfectly Calibrated Instrument

J.S. DeYoung reviews Deb Olin Unferth’s Barn 8.

Almost-Lies, Not-Quite Fictions

Jessica Payn reviews Eley Williams’ The Liar’s Dictionary

A Polyglot Maximalism

Chris Via reviews Rick Harsch’s The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas.

Not Reconciled

Greg Gerke reviews Gerald Murnane’s A Million Windows.

Textures in Time

Katie da Cunha Lewin reviews Sara Baume’s handiwork.

Reveries of a Solitary Reader

Andrew Key reviews Moyra Davey’s Index Cards.

The Haunting

Daniel Green reviews Jack Cox’s Dodge Rose.

Within Touching Distance of the Past

Liam Bishop reviews Zigmunds Skujiņš’ Flesh-Coloured Dominoes (trans. Kaija Straumanis).

Cut, Cut, Cut

Katie da Cunha Lewin reviews Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto.

Outbursts of the Irreal

Daniel Green reviews Nicolette Polek’s Imaginary Museums.

Today’s Weather

Anna MacDonald reviews Jenny Offill’s Weather.

Ostentatiously Unfamiliar

Jessica Payn reviews Eimear McBride’s Strange Hotel.

Apocalypse Now

Daniel Green reviews László Krasznahorkai’s Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming (trans. Ottilie Mulzet).

Having Time Without Wanting It

Jessica Payn reviews Brenda Lozano’s Loop (trans. Annie McDermott).

Something That Was Almost Nothing About Something That Was Almost Something

J.S. DeYoung reviews Jung Young Moon’s Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River (trans. Yewon Jung).

The Sawn-in-half Lady

Anna MacDonald reviews Christina Hesselholdt’s Vivian (trans. Paul Russell Garrett).

Entering Cross River

Daniel Green reviews Rion Amilcar Scott’s The World Doesn’t Require You.

An Existential Thriller With Lots of Breast Milk

J.S. DeYoung reviews Helen Phillips’ The Need.

The Wildness Within

Liam Bishop reviews Alvydas Šlepikas’ In the Shadow of Wolves (trans. Romas Kinka).

Beautiful Beast

Anna MacDonald reviews Josephine Rowe’s Here Until August.

“Smiling Like a Person Sunbathing”

Katie Da Cunha Lewin reviews Sylvie Weil’s Selfies (trans. Ros Schwartz).

Writing, Letters

David Hebblethwaite reviews Mario Levrero’s Empty Words (trans. Annie McDermott).

The Big Smoke

David Hebblethwaite reviews Will Wiles’ Plume.

The Side Dishes, Part 2

J.S. DeYoung reviews Natalia Ginzburg’s Happiness, as Such (trans. Minna Zallman Proctor).

The Side Dishes, Part 1

J.S. DeYoung reviews Natalia Ginzburg’s The Dry Heart (trans. Frances Frenaye).

The Telling and the Tale

Daniel Green reviews Anna Burns’ Milkman.

I Didn’t Want to Talk About Literature Before Having Sex

J.S. DeYoung reviews Lina Wolff’s The Polyglot Lovers (trans. Saskia Vogel).

Echolocation in the Archive

Anna MacDonald reviews Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive.

In Captivity

Anna MacDonald reviews Samanta Schweblin’s Mouthful of Birds (trans. Megan McDowell).

“Our Smiles Are Grimaces”

Daniel Green reviews David Hayden’s Darker With the Lights On.

Stamping Ducks

J.S. DeYoung reviews Sam Savage’s An Orphanage of Dreams.

A Grammar of Home

Anna MacDonald reviews Fiona Wright’s The World Was Whole.

Raw

Thea Hawlin reviews Olivia Laing’s Crudo.

An Indecipherable Design

J.S. DeYoung reviews Amparo Dávila’s The Houseguest (trans. Audrey Harris and Matthew Gleeson)

Extravagantly Articulate

David Hebblethwaite reviews Marc Nash’s Three Dreams in the Key of G.

Of Mingling and Middles

J.S. DeYoung reviews Mathias Énard’s Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants (trans. Charlotte Mandell).

A Challenge of Empathy

David Hebblethwaite reviews Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori).

Mother/Monster

Thea Hawlin reviews Sharlene Teo’s Ponti.

On Crackedness

Xenobe Purvis reviews Clare Fisher’s How the Light Gets In.

In Search of Lost Time

Joseph Schreiber reviews Wolfgang Hilbig’s The Tidings of the Trees (trans. Isabel Fargo Cole).

A Room for Fantasy

Anna MacDonald reviews Katharine Kilalea’s OK, Mr Field.