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This audacious novel begins with an intriguing mystery: who is the young man claiming to be the long-lost son of the narrator, an actor who knows she has never had a child? Halfway through, after the narrator adjusts to a difficult role in a play, the book turns on a surprising hinge that perfectly fastens together its form and subject.
Horror- and revenge-driven thrills provide a vehicle for searing commentary on the history of violence against Indigenous populations in this wildly ambitious and staggeringly accomplished novel, about a Blackfeet warrior who becomes a vampire after he encounters a beast brought to his land by white settlers.
This enthralling intellectual saga traces the history of capitalism from the perspectives of its critics on both the right and left, finding fascinating commonalities across centuries and continents. What emerges is a vivid picture of capitalism as a visceral force within the lives of people from all walks of life. Elegant and erudite, it’s a totally unique view of the modern world.
Lin’s brilliant follow-up to Gay Bar braids together an account of his and his husband’s late-’90s love story with a look at the history of gay marriage, combining steamy sex, thoughtful social critique, and dogged reporting into a dazzling narrative that’s equal parts radical, tender, and timely.
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Balle raises the stakes and explores new possibilities in her series about a woman trapped in a time loop, who now finds others who are also stuck reliving the same day. The third of seven installments, this raises provocative philosophical questions about identity and how to best make use of one’s time, and confirms the series is destined to become an enduring classic.
Vara’s most inventive work yet is a soulful, perceptive take on humanity’s relationship with technology. Both collaborating with and critiquing artificial intelligence in essays that are wholly unique and moving, she draws attention to the gap between the richness of reality and technology’s superficial approximation of it.
It’s rare to find the narrator of a work of autofiction as invested in the lives of others as Khemiri’s is. Jonas, a writer, unspools an intimate decades-spanning saga of three Tunisian Swedish sisters, speeding up time as he and the sisters age. This narrative device reflects what time feels like as life passes and makes the novel become more propulsive as it goes.
More than a biography of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee, this is an essential history of the Asian American experience. Journalist Chang pulls off the ambitious endeavor with nuance, flair, and heart. In sentences that pack a punch, he effortlessly puts a larger-than-life figure into the context of his time.
An anthropologist and firefighter, Thomas delivers a rare up-close look at the perilous front lines of the climate crisis, recounting his stint with an elite wildland firefighting crew in California in 2021. He pairs this awe-inducing account with a captivating history of Indigenous controlled burns and an in-depth look at how private companies take advantage of fire disasters to make a profit.
In this vital metafictional narrative, DeWitt and Gridneff embark on a quixotic project to write a commercially viable book that will also disrupt the staid literary marketplace. The result is dizzying, yes, but it’s held together by the authors’ razor-sharp wit, and it’s poised to restore even the most jaded reader’s faith in the fun and power of literature.
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