Debut Books

The First Jasmines – Saima Begum

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Without dedicated accounts of the voices and roles of women, national literary traditions are incomplete. 

Little Pink Book as Literary Fanfiction

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Traditionally, Western concepts of originality in art are not equipped to consider whether creativity is possible under conditions of continual reproduction; it presupposes an authentic source of spontaneous genius.

Slow Guillotine – Teo Rivera-Dundas

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We are drowning, choking, and sputtering on the saline logic of late capitalism: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

The Home the Drowned – Elin Anna Labba

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Since their words weren’t enough, the people of the village set up a protest camp

Letters to Kafka – Christina Estima

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It’s a blaze of an affair, two intelligent people who deal with words

My Dreadful Body – Egana Djabbarova

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For Djabbarova, the body functions as a palimpsest of symbols

Information Age – Cora Lewis

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In this era of autocorrect, Lewis’s characters speak in typos

The Sleeping Land – Ella Alexander

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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

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As much as natural history is a history of disappearances and extinctions, it is also a repository of evolutions and potentials.