Keith Oatley's Therefore Choose Gooselane Editions, 2010 Therefore Choose is a tremendously accessible, memorable and relevant novel from Gooselane. If you've tried one of Keith Oatley's earlier novels (The Case of Emily V. published in 1993, A Natural History, published in 1998), you might think that a novel from him
Salvatore Scibona "The Kid" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June14/21 The New Yorker The kid? He's five years old and lost in an airport. And he's weeping. Incessently. Gesturing and wandering, barely forming words through his tears and, later, refusing to speak at all. Nurses and clerks and various airport
Banana Yoshimoto's Hardboiled and Hard Luck (1999) Trans. from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich (2005) This is the last of Banana Yoshimoto's works that have been translated into English that I had to read; if it had been the first of her works that I'd read, I don't think I'd
Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (2007) Art by Ellen Forney Little Brown, 2009 A few years ago I saw Sherman Alexie at a ridiculously underattended reading in a small Toronto bookstore on a fine Friday night in summer. I remember wondering if there wasn't something
Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps Grosset & Dunlap (1923) My experience with Arnold Bennett's fiction can be easily summed up: The Old Wives' Tale (1908). But what I lack in experience, I make up for in enthusiasm: I loved that novel. I was expecting it to be old-fashioned, dreary and a
