This week in publishing we have new works from a number of seasoned veterans with a taste for big swings and clever premises.

Here you’ll find that gothic horror, so often lurking in the dingy dark, can manifest also in the fluorescent world of the terminally online; that hell can be rather academic, really; and even that the rules of grammar, like a tight-fitting jacket, can be simply shrugged off by a talented writer when they no longer suit.

With Labor Day on the horizon, now is a good time to crack open a good book and get to work on a new understanding of what the world can contain.

The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride

McBride shares a common lineage with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett — not only as Irish writers but also as unrepentant experimenters with no respect for th

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