This week, William H. Gass's first novel in nearly 20 years, cyborg cockroaches, and a roof that changes shape. Plus: one of the most memorable FBI agents since Clarice Starling.
Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts by Emily Anthes (FSG/Scientific American)
The Cats of Tanglewood Forest by Charles de Lint, illus. by Charles Vess (Little, Brown)
Escape Theory by Margaux Froley (Soho Teen)
Middle C by William H. Gass (Knopf)
Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories by Ben Katchor (Pantheon)
Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman (Minotaur)
Hair Shirt by Patrick McEown (Abrams/SelfMadeHero)
Mundo Cruel by Luis Negron, trans. from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine (Seven Stories)
Trinkets by Kirsten Smith (Little, Brown)
The Andalucian Friend by Alexander Soderberg, trans. from the Swedish by Neil Smith (Crown)
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber (Norton/Liveright)
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