Reviews

Divination with a Human Heart Attached – Emily Stoddard

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These poems leave us with a gentle litany of things left behind—things more suitable, perhaps, for the more subtle shades of grief.

Information Age – Cora Lewis

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In this era of autocorrect, Lewis’s characters speak in typos

The Sleeping Land – Ella Alexander

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Alexander reminds us that the human experience is bound to a rich history, and not just a matter of individual experience.

The Harmattan Winds — Sylvain Trudel, Tr. from the French by Donald Winkler

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So much time inside such a limited subjectivity also made me question my own. Was I right to read Hugues as pathological, even psychopathic?

The Dream of the Jaguar – Miguel Bonnefoy

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Is Bonnefoy suggesting that we read these European colonial narratives as magical realist texts?

Ṣẹ̀gílọlà Arómirẹ́ Ògìdán – Àrẹ̀mọ Yusuf Àlàbí Balógun

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Her anger lives in the syntax, in sentences that run long, breathless, or suddenly halt.

The Porno President – Bruna Kalil Othero

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“Tits or ass?” Othero’s novel urges us to consider this question in today’s political landscape