Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary – Maddie Ballard
… Of all art forms, clothing is particularly close to the self.
Algarabía – Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
His hero does not fight monstrous beings, but those who marginalize him as monstrous.
Arcticologies – Lowell Duckert
Reading it feels like scooping wet snow with a large shovel on an unseasonably warm winter morning
Berlin Atomized – Julia Kornberg
We can’t use irony to cope with catastrophe forever.
Bodies Found in Various Places – Elvira Hernández
Hernández offers readers a poetry of survival and disturbance, but only as much as we can cup in our hands.
Resurrecting the Dead in Confessional True Crime Memoirs
In both memoirs, evidence serves less to solve a crime than to reconstruct a self—both the dead family member and the writer grappling with their loss.
What does it mean to have a fake novel? What does it mean to have a novel that’s thinking, aware of itself as a novel, and thinking about
Hymn to Moray Eels – Mireille Best
Why love a boy just on the basis of his boy-ness?
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.
Rather than recounting a biography, Ernaux is writing into a silence.