It’s a few days into a new month, and you can probably tell what’s next: we have some May books we’d like to recommend. Stylistically, they cover a lot of terrain; you’ll find everything from experimental short fiction to haunting meditations of contemporary politics here. Read on for some suggestions for the weeks to come.
The Blue House by Alison B. Hart When I was 22 years old, I fell in love with an older woman. J was from out of town, a poet and a musician wearing leather pants and a dog collar at the club in San Francisco where I’d gone to dance. Her friend was dating my friend, and we tagged along with them to a late-night diner not far from my apartment, talking about books while they made out like teenagers. […]