Experimental fiction

Reviews

The Novel That Contains Itself: On Catherine Lacey's The Möbius Book

Catherine Lacey's new novel The Möbius Book folds a revenge narrative around an embedded mystery novella. Sigrid Nørgaard considers what it means when a book has no discernible outside.

Reviews

Carlos Labbé Wrote the Soccer Novel Nobody Knew They Wanted

The Murmuration, Carlos Labbé's Chilean novel about the 1962 World Cup, arrives in English translation. It is stranger than its premise suggests, and better than that strangeness deserves to go unnoticed.

Literature

César Aira Wrote a Novel in French in 1996, Never Published It, and a Contract Clause Just Brought It Back

A publishing contract clause forced Argentine novelist César Aira to dig up a 1996 unpublished French manuscript, self-translate it to Spanish, and publish it. The result—La sala—is as strange and honest as you would expect.