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.
The Eligible Age – Berta García Faet
Comprised of mostly declarative sentences verging on aphorism, THE ELIGIBLE AGE as a whole reads like a tractate.
The Comedown – Rebekah Frumkin
One wonders indeed how far back we might trace the sources of a family’s anxieties, the original sins of the original fathers, a neurotic first mover.
Empty Set – Verónica Gerber Bicecci
How do you render negative space, and if you can accurately describe it, is it really negative?
The Consequences – Niña Weijers
How often can refusal be appropriated, marketed, sold and consumed by those who possibly cause it, before the only chance an earnest human has is stop making art?
One of these novellas is not like the other. The asymmetry, of course, is very much the point, and the contrast is inherently political. Together, the two parts ask, What ‘we’ can hold us?
The Book of Resting Places – Thomas Mira y Lopez
Mira y Lopez’s encyclopedic interests flirt with the ready information saturation of the current moment, but his facile movement between subjects, both cerebral and intimate, honor the careful attention of authorship over hiveminded wikis.