Fates and Furies

“I am in awe of Miranda July. She is the person I want to be, the artist who feels free to work in any number of media, the artist who is so talented, expressive. The First Bad Man is a book that must be read, a book that must be purchased in duplicate – one […]

»När jag hittade I Love Dick var det som att hitta den saknade pusselbiten till allt jag någonsin läst och allt jag någonsin försökt skriva.« | EMILY GOULD, THE GUARDIAN  Chris Kraus är en misslyckad experimentell filmmakare som snart ska fylla fyrtio. Hon är gift med den franska hippa kritikern Sylvère Lotringer, som undervisar vid […]

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more ‘plant-like’ existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism […]

An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong—this stunning first novel is perfect for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely […]