by Nathan Katkin

The Sisters K – Maureen Sun

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Sun’s first novel is very much its own book, but it invites comparison to Fyodor’s 1880 family-drama-cum-spiritual-murder-mystery, The Brothers Karamazov, so boldly that I think I’ll go ahead and compare them.

A Small Apocalypse – Laura Chow Reeve

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Reeve’s imagined worlds are not habitable alternatives but critical comments on this one. Her idea of a refuge is not the infinite expanse of the interior self, but the tight-knit, embattled queer family in a hostile world.

Idlewild – James Frankie Thomas

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Teenagers . . . Are they interesting, or just irritating?