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12 Books to Read If You Can’t Move On From Night Country
These icy, lonesome tales will scratch the same frostbitten itch as True Detective’s fourth season.
Stories range from the folkloric to the gritty and urban, but bonus points to the opener, Martha Zeller’s “Kushtuka,” which takes us straight back to Alaska for a nightmarish tale of monsters calling the unwary out into the snow. The Alaska of John Straley’s long-running Cecil Younger Mysteries is full of distinct character; barrooms erupt into regular fistfights, old crimes lie unresolved, and hints of an older tradition thrum behind everything. Wilkes’s choice to tell her story through the eyes of a trans man is an interesting twist on chauvinistic colonial expedition — just as Issa Lopez has unpicked the machismo of detective fiction through her central female pairing.
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