Two Capsule Reviews

Y/N (novel; 2023; written by Esther Yi)

Was recommended by a friend (who has written about it) (more insightfully than I’m about to) (dang it Barbara stop doing that!). This is one of those absurdist novels where the point, the kind of aesthetic experience that’s on offer, is basically “What if I listen to a series of events as related by somebody who ca…