I Hope You’re Happy – Marni Appleton
[The Indigo Press; 2025] Things sure have gotten weird, haven’t they? Younger generations, contextualized by the internet since birth, face the breakdown of their relationships to art. This breakdown reflects the jumbled, murky, often irretrievably frayed relationships they try to form with each other in a time when it’s difficult to identify the purpose of […]
The Surrender of Man – Naomi Falk
How do you articulate with the limited construct of language something as rich and malleable as an emotional response to art?
The book is organized around the person of Sinno’s stepfather. She renders his presence and domination as suffocating. I shudder to acknowledge: that is not a metaphor.
When The Horses – Mary Helen Callier
In this collection, light is less revealing than it is blinding, distortive and receding.
Shelby Hinte’s debut novel HOWLING WOMEN investigates curiosity over blame, looking at the story beneath action.
An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance – Diana Oropeza
Oropeza coaxes you to lean in closer, embrace the precarity of invisibility, death, and all other forms of disappearance
Book of Potions – Lauren K. Watel
BOOK OF POTIONS begins by defining a new literary form: “potion = poem + fiction.”
Sillyboy – Peter Vack; The Champ is Here – Nathan Dragon
Freaks rarely please everyone, but they are beloved by someone.
Alternative Facts – Emily Greenberg
Greenberg depicts these figures with sympathy, at times poignancy, yet never with forgiveness.
From Savagery – Alejandra Banca
FROM SAVAGERY, the debut work of fiction by Alejandra Banca, beautifully translated by Katie Brown . . . gives a voice to a new generation of Venezuelan migrants creating life abroad.