Riverwork

Riverworkby Lisa Robertson published 8 October 2026 A glittering and erudite new novel of Paris from the author of The Baudelaire Fractal Some ruins are invisible. Under the pavements of Paris there lies buried an ancient river, the Bivre. For years, Lucy Frost has walked along these streets, unaware of the water and history under her feet, on her way to clean the apartments of Pariss academic class. As she begins to study and transcribe the inherited

what we’ve seen

The spaceship Audition is hurtling towards an event horizon

and the painful difficulty of breaking out of one’s own patterns and specific self

A novel that reads like an act of sabotage

by Youssef Rakha

Through a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters—with neighbors

Paradise Burns is a poetic exploration of an uncannily familiar ecological and existential grief

‘The book feints toward an Ottessa Moshfegh–style ennui

The History of the Vertebrate by Mar García Puig (translated by Mara Faye Lethem)

viewed from on high and from down in the dust of our neediest interactions

and poetic

and parasites to which it is host