The Reading Room · Hazel Reads Three
The debuts everyone bet on
First novels worth the noise.
Book 1 Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
READ IT An Iranian-American poet, newly sober, chasing meaning toward a dying artist in a museum. A poet's novel, and it earns the exclamation. Read it.
Book 2 The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley
FOR SOME A Victorian polar explorer pulled into the present, half spy novel, half romance. Great fun that can't quite decide what it is. Enjoyable anyway.
Book 3 Rejection
Tony Tulathimutte
SKIP IT Linked stories about humiliation and the internet, brutally sharp. Impressive and airless. Admire from a safe distance.
Now tell me what you’re reading. Have you read any of these? Or something better? Bring it to the Reading Room.
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