NO ONE BELONGS HERE MORE THAN YOU
By Miranda July
Scribner, 205 pages, $23
After Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July became known as “that pooping back and forth forever” woman, the director who’d had the gall to make a sweetly awkward film that also investigated adolescent blowjobs and the fecal Read More
Absurdistan is the sort of novel that, if mishandled, could make for a truly fabulous mess. As in Gary Shteyngart’s debut, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, we find ourselves immersed in a fictitious post-Soviet nation, this one bearing a striking resemblance to war-torn Afghanistan. What makes Absurdistan different from his debut is that Mr. Shteyngart has Read More
Absurdistan is the sort of novel that, if mishandled, could make for a truly fabulous mess. As in Gary Shteyngart’s debut, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, we find ourselves immersed in a fictitious post-Soviet nation, this one bearing a striking resemblance to war-torn Afghanistan. What makes Absurdistan different from his debut is that Mr. Shteyngart has Read More
