Keys to Tulsa

Brian Fair Berkey. Washington Square Press, $12 (416pp) ISBN 978-0-671-70727-9

A wisecracking Berkeley graduate evades gangsters and police while a journalist investigates a topless dancer's death in this grand tour of Tulsa's extensive seamy side. ``Berkey's only bad habit is his continual mockery of the characters' cornball accents,'' PW stated; otherwise, this ``manic and wildly raunchy'' novel ``succeeds smashingly.'' (Feb.)

Featured Fiction Reviews

Canisia Lubrin

Windham Campbell Prize–winning poet Lubrin (Voodoo Hypothesis) makes her fiction debut with a thrilling and inventive collection centered on Black life in the Caribbean and the Continue reading »

Michel Nieva

Argentine writer Nieva sets his ingenious and outré English-language debut, expanded from an O. Henry Prize–winning short story, in a far-future world radically altered by Continue reading »

Jack Wang

In this exemplary historical, a Chinese Canadian man fights prejudice and falls in love during WWII. Josiah Chang, who’s unable to join the army because of his race, finds work Continue reading »

Gerald Murnane

This spectacular novel from Murnane (Inland), originally published in Australia in 2009, takes the form of an internal dialogue about the images, memories, and obsessions the Continue reading »