The Sleeping Land – Ella Alexander
Alexander reminds us that the human experience is bound to a rich history, and not just a matter of individual experience.
Natural History – Brandon Kilbourne
As much as natural history is a history of disappearances and extinctions, it is also a repository of evolutions and potentials.
The nose is not just cartilage and skin; it is inheritance, race, femininity, a mark of refusal, a repository of hatred and desire.
This narrative unmooring, while unconventional, strikes me as a byproduct of Jong’s departure from high-control religion
Now More Than Ever – Greta Schledorn
What Schledorn reveals isn’t a secret self but the impossibility of having one.
Sour Cherry — Natalia Theodoridou
Theodoridou […] takes readers beyond named characters like Agnes and Eunice, and largely beyond hope.
The High Heaven – Joshua Wheeler
The High Heaven strays far from southern New Mexico. And yet, part of its power derives from the ways in which the region remains present.
The novel is a portrait of growing up and growing old, twin phenomena that run in the same direction yet seem somehow opposed
I’d love to think that Lonesome Ballroom…might prove one of many “weird” books that make our broader tradition stranger and therefore stronger, more strapping.
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.