The Rage Letters – Valérie Bah
Even as they inject the stories with magical realism, the collection is grounded by an understanding of the systems of oppression that beget antiBlackness, fetishization, white supremacy, racial capitalism, etc. However, Bah is not defeatist. Black queer and trans people create new languages and new ways of being
Something shakes up their lives that they cannot ignore, and they must continue the practice of daily life while fighting each battle internally, having to rely mainly on themselves for emotional strength
Auroville: A City of Dreams – Katarzyna Boni
[Boni] writes, “Auroville is not a utopia, it’s a laboratory. A transitional being between what is and what will be.” But what will be? After several decades, it’s clear that the same question haunts Auroville
Don’t Laugh at Other People’s Sex Lives; Beautiful Distance – Nao-Cola Yamazaki
Yamazaki breaks us and reforms us
From the Solitude of the Waters of the River, From Nowhere
This novel is largely an attempt to draw a line—crooked, errant—from Maria’s nowhere to elsewhere
The collection plays in an often melodious, sometimes jangling range of registers
The noises that Kharkiv is missing—voices chattering, music playing, cars honking—speak most loudly
Antuco – Carlos Cardani Parra and Carlos Soto Roman
The visible text seems to be peeking out above the snow
Andhar Bil – Kalyani Thakur Charal
Yet Andhar Bil insists there was such a place where a person could be casteless and genderless, free and roaming through the waters and marshes and fields.
We Computers is a dive into a world of machine-made language, ruled by a consummately computerized mind.