The lens of Ottessa Moshfegh’sHomesick for Another World is, almost without exception, fitted close-up on conversations, petty rumination, and squalid interiors.
Claudia Salazar Jiménez sets out to conjure the experience of atrocity in Peru with her debut novel, Blood of the Dawn. The result is disquieting—though not in the way you’d expect.
Exile, failure, the dread of erasure: Antonio Di Benedetto seems to have transmuted all his life experiences into his novel Zama, which has finally been translated into English.