The heroine of MALVA is a fictional creation, and as a typical daughter, she is only too prepared to justify her father’s behavior.
The aims of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration are exposed by the writer as quests into nothingness.
Summer Cannibals – Melanie Hobson
SUMMER CANNIBALS, Melanie Hobson’s addition to the canon of Country Manors In Sharp Decline, proposes another reason for the downfall of polite society: the patriarchy itself.
Revenge of the Translator – Brice Matthieussent
You could also say that it was her most transgressive, subversive move to forego revenge, content instead to disappear.
Steele said in an interview that he was interested in the blog as a “vehicle to tell jokes,” which partially gets at what the entries feel like.
Ultra-Cabin – Kimberly Lambright
We might read holding the world in the back of our minds as a way of negotiating between what is promising and what can hurt us.
Clean Time: The True Story of Ronald Reagan Middleton – Ben Gwin
As the endless 24-hour news cycle increasingly feels like performance for profit rather than reporting, CLEAN TIME: THE TRUE STORY OF RONALD REAGAN MIDDLETON rings true with its deft prescience.
Trash Mountain – Bradley Bazzle
Having an enemy — that is, something towards which to direct his anger — is, in this way, Ben’s saving grace.
So much poetry from writers of color is rooted in an immediate sense of identity and place; Leung is beyond that.
It’s arguable that BELLY UP simply presents an allegorical South: maybe all the more evidently brittle and compromised, with an extra little shine of strangeness.