4 books added
Emily Nemens is the editor of The Paris Review. She was previously the co-editor of The Southern Review. Her work has been published in Esquire, n 1, The Gettysburg Review, Hobart and elsewhere, and she is the author of The Cactus League.
Emily Nemens recommends
Kayfabe (2024)
Chris Koslowski
"Many hats off to Chris Koslowski, who in Kayfabe manages what I thought was impossible: he describes the dance of professional wrestling with nimble yet gut-punching grace. I've never seen the complicated moves of the ring-the choreography between fighters, but also the messy politics that undergird every match-examined with such a keen eye."
Women and Children First (2024)
Alina Grabowski
"Reading Women and Children First is like encountering the best kind of puzzle: each of its pieces is a small marvel, elegant and finely wrought. But then, the chapters snap together in the most satisfying way, creating a full picture that is as sweeping as it is nuanced. Here are friends and foes, past resentments and future hopes, all the mess and beauty of a complicated, compelling community. You won't be able to put it down until the puzzle is complete."
The Extinction of Irena Rey (2024)
Jennifer Croft
"In The Extinction of Irena Rey, Jennifer Croft mines the complexity of translation, adoration, and symbiosis. At once a meditation on the networks required to bring literature to worldwide readers and a page-turner about the inevitable fallibilities of those systems, Extinction's push and pull is both thought-provoking and thrilling. I was rapt."
More recommendations
Visitors also looked at these authors
