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.
Modern Woman — Edith Södergran
The sibilance of the “s” alliteration creates a shushing sound that suggests a candle snuffed out by the wind to symbolize the end of a life, an effect that is enhanced in the translated version.
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
The Twenties – Varlam Shalamov
Shalamov conveys a sense of lost collectivity
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
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