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.

Tamangur – Leta Semadeni

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The novel is a portrait of growing up and growing old, twin phenomena that run in the same direction yet seem somehow opposed

On The Clock – Claire Baglin

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Baglin catalogues those small psychological adjustments that are as important to learn as Point-of-Sale technology or managerial abbreviations if one wants to stay afloat in the modern workplace.

In a Deep Blue Hour — Peter Stamm

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“In a Deep Blue Hour, the latest novel by Swiss writer Peter Stamm, unfolds in . . . [the] interstice between documentary and narrative film, reality and fiction, memory and dream.”

Sakina’s Kiss – Vivek Shanbhag

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SAKINA’S KISS is an attempt to travel between two […] islands, the village Gothic and the urban global

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