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Rachel Cusk Picador ($15) by Joshua Willey The seventh novel from Whitbread winner Rachel Cusk is in many ways the epitome of a minor work.

Juan José Saer translated by Steve Dolph Open Letter ($14.95) by Scott Bryan Wilson Angel Leto and an acquaintance named The Mathematician—who, deeply tanned and

Skip Horack Counterpoint ($15.95) by Billy Reynolds Reading a novel whose protagonist is a pygmy tribesman captured and sold into slavery (and whose canines and

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Alissa Nutting Starcherone Books ($18) by Peter Grandbois Rarely does a reader experience an imagination pulsing with the vibrancy of Alissa Nutting’s Unclean Jobs for Women

Lori Ann Stephens Blooming Tree Press ($23.95) by Kristin Thiel The mark of a well-written book is layers: “It sounded good, but there was a

John Hawkes Dalkey Archive ($13.95) by Greg Gerke Has there ever been a literary novel as saturated in sex and bodily fluids as John Hawkes’s The

Frances O'Roark Dowell Atheneum ($16.99) by Carrie Mercer “Quiet girls who weren't shy, girls who talked in riddles but were never actually rude”—such is the