Lori Lamby’s Pink Notebook – Hilda Hilst
In Lori’s logic, to make a book is to process it through the cruel machine of the market.
Letters to Kafka – Christina Estima
It’s a blaze of an affair, two intelligent people who deal with words
My Dreadful Body – Egana Djabbarova
For Djabbarova, the body functions as a palimpsest of symbols
The Disappearing Act – Maria Stepanova
Hundreds of eyes are looking at her, seeing not the novelist but some other unknown person
Within each coupledom, clothing represents a tug of war for power
Ṣẹ̀gílọlà Arómirẹ́ Ògìdán – Àrẹ̀mọ Yusuf Àlàbí Balógun
Her anger lives in the syntax, in sentences that run long, breathless, or suddenly halt.
The Porno President – Bruna Kalil Othero
“Tits or ass?” Othero’s novel urges us to consider this question in today’s political landscape