Category: Books - Page 7 - The American Mag

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Javier Marías digs into the web of secrets and lies (and sex) in post-Franco Spain of the 1980s.

Roberto Arlt's doomsday vision of Buenos Aires in the late 1920s beat the Beat Generation to the punch.

Adam Johnson's latest collection presents plain narrators with surreal challenges.

Dag Solstad's slender novel is a luminously intelligent look at a man's middle age crisis.

China Miéville turns too arcane in his latest foray into the Stonehenge-styled surreal.

Rachel Cusk's novel, "a reverse kind of exposition," beautifully subverts structure, but it hurts.

André Alexis's stunning "Fifteen Dogs" confers canines with human sensibility, and the greater gift of empathy.

Adam Johnson's latest story collection "celebrates" the United States of Death, Dying and the Surreal.

In 2003, Tariq Ali wrote scathingly about the Iraq invasion. Many of his insights stand.

What do goose stepping zombies have for dinner? Why endorphins of course.

Philip K. Dick's alternative history of post-World War II, though at times clunky, remains bloodcurdling.