Krugman might be a Nobel Prize winning economist, but he is plugged in to Washington power and reminds us where our politicians call from and who they heed. What a ghoulish assortment of villains who emerge in its pages, from Trump to McConnell to Paul Ryan-remember him!-and others. In short it’s become a time against truth. From the road to Obamacare to its long (and ongoing) pushback, to the election of Donald Trump and the “revelation” that he would leave the American worker behind, it’s not a pretty picture. What have they wrought? This collection of Krugman’s pieces for the New York Times takes readers on a tour of that world. Ideas that should have died long ago when hit by evidence-trickle-down tax breaks, the madman syndrome of leadership-but have refused to go away. We are living in a time of zombie ideas, Paul Krugman has been arguing. Paul Krugman, Arguing With Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better America It’s a moving, gripping testament to the ways in which US immigration policy fractures lives. The book also addresses Castillo’s changing relationship with language as he progresses through his education, eventually enrolling in an MFA program at the University of Michigan. Children of the Land is his story of migration from Mexico in 1993 and everything that followed as his family was subject to the violence and dehumanization of the US immigration system. I’ve followed Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s work as a poet for years, including on the Undocupoets Campaign, where he worked with co-founders Javier Zamora and Christopher Soto to eliminate citizenship requirements from poetry book prizes. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Children of the Land But while Bollen’s latest is as sumptuous and fraught as Highsmith’s classic, it’s a satisfyingly updated version (the thieves are a gay couple, one white, one black, in a well-rendered contemporary Venice), and full of delights all its own. The first chapter of this novel gave me major Tom Ripley vibes-which is about as high a compliment as I can pay to a crime novel. What follows is a decades-spanning journey of horror and hope, as Yoon tenderly traces the divergent paths of these four wounded souls, still haunted by their past but determined to persevere. After seeking shelter in a bombed-out field hospital, the trio become medical couriers for an impassioned French doctor who eventually secures them safe passage out of the country. This new novel by Young Lions Fiction Award winner Paul Yoon ( Snow Hunters, The Mountain) is the story of Alisak, Prany, and Noi-three orphan teenagers trying to survive in a war-ravaged, and unexploded ordinance-littered, Laos in 1969. –Dwyer Murphy, CrimeReads Managing Editor The twist this time around is the key person-of-interest has multiple personalities, each one with a different story. In Ide’s latest, IQ gets dragged into a case by a local arms trafficker and heads to new terrain to solve a murder in toney Newport Beach. Ide is one of the rising stars of crime fiction, and he’s back this month with the fourth installment in his celebrated IQ series, which follows the investigations and adventures of a young, community-spirited, crime-solving man nicknamed IQ, born, raised, and operating out of South Central L.A. Can’t wait for another story to mull over until the end of time. His latest novel, Interior Chinatown, is a metafictional send-up of Asian American tropes, and it sounds perfectly odd and funny and deep, like the rest of his writing. I won’t describe it ( you can read it here) but it has never quite left my mind, and as a result, I am always here for new work from Yu. I think about the first story in Charles Yu’s 2012 collection Sorry Please Thank You, “Standard Loneliness Package,” about once a week. Reminiscent of the writing of Mary Gaitskill, Lorrie Moore, and Ottessa Moshfegh, Show Them a Good Time is a deft and dazzling work of pitch-black humor and deep, disquieting sorrow. In another, “Abortion: A Love Story,” two female college students join together to tell their stories in the format of a play. In one story, “Hump,” an office worker develops a hunchback after her father’s death. Her debut collection is a magnificently mordant work, full of delicious one-liners, perennially creeping menace, and hypnotically nihilistic depictions of cold-eyed young women trapped in strange, lonely, sometimes dystopian situations, often surrounded by predatory or unhinged older men. What are you reading this week?įlattery is a rising star back in the UK and Ireland (where she already has a heap of awards to her name), and with very good reason. Well, what are you waiting for? Get cracking. It’s threatening to crush you in your sleep. Every week, the TBR pile grows a little bit more.
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