A River Called Time – Courttia Newland
By telling a story through parallel universes, the future and the past become inseparable, allowing A RIVER CALLED TIME to be both visionary and reflective all at once.
Notes Made While Falling – Jenn Ashworth
Ashworth’s memoir project — “about my body gone missing”— demands that critics likewise confront their stake in narratives of trauma, illness, and disability.
Nick Jaina and Tatiana Ryckman
I do that think in order to heal, some people have to disappear and do it in quiet.
ALIEN STORIES feels very aware of itself and of how to make meaningful ideas connect with a broad audience: the stories are accessible, but thought-provoking, with clarity and concision.
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir – Michelle Zauner
What I can say for certain, though, is that as Zauner guided me through these corridors of her own life, little pieces of her world attached to me.
Noah Ross’ ACTIVE RECEPTION makes a raucous mess of sound and sense as part of its queer project of seeking kinship and pleasure within capitalism.
Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist – Marc Ribot
Seen as a genius and underappreciated musician by those initiated into the world of free jazz and noise guitar, Marc Ribot now reveals his ambitions as an author.
This is an experiment in explaining what it means to inhabit a body, a mother’s body, a baby’s body in this world and in other worlds.
A Good True Thai – Sunisa Manning
Though the action takes place nearly a half-century in the past, the novel’s core theme — resistance to entrenched power — could hardly be more relevant.
We need to get away from the idea that any method is guaranteed for success or guaranteed for failure. The methods work, or fail, in a much more context-specific way.