Book Review
“‘The plot of this is not and will not be obvious.’ So begins Eley Williams’ debut short story collection Attrib. and Other Stories, out today (Anchor Books, May 18, 2021), a declaration that grows increasingly self-referential as the collection unfurls, each of its sixteen stories a successive petal in the work’s burgeoning eccentricity, sensitivity, and wit.” On the blog, Sarah M. Zhou reviews Eley Williams’ Attrib. and Other Stories (Anchor Books, 2021).
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“The unnamed ‘man of two minds’ from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer returns in The Committed (Grove Atlantic, 2021), now entangled in the criminal side streets of France. No longer a spy or a sleeper, but most certainly a spook, our two-minded narrator is tormented by contradiction, infinitely dialectical in his ability to sympathize with conflicting perspectives.” On the blog, Jonathan Paul reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed (Grove Atlantic, 2021).
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“Joyce grapples with themes of isolation, disillusionment, and cultural confusion in the post-war era, adding a sinister tinge to a story that seeks to establish itself as something more than just ‘touching.’” On the blog, Simone Gulliver reviews Rachel Joyce’s Miss Benson’s Beetle (Penguin Random House, 2020).
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