The Woman Dies circumvented my critical brain: it made me laugh, shocked me, revealed my tastes to be safe rather than incisive.
Solidarity with Children – Madeline Lane-McKinley
Children do depend on adults, but dependence need not entail domination.
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange — Katie Goh
Fruit becomes an object and artifact of history, shaping the currents of the world and the present moment
This narrative unmooring, while unconventional, strikes me as a byproduct of Jong’s departure from high-control religion
This is the nightmare of being a teenager, how the temporary bleeds into permanence in a developing mind and body.
Now More Than Ever – Greta Schledorn
What Schledorn reveals isn’t a secret self but the impossibility of having one.
Sour Cherry — Natalia Theodoridou
Theodoridou […] takes readers beyond named characters like Agnes and Eunice, and largely beyond hope.
In the Realm of Motes – Baptiste Gaillard
Human witnesses are nowhere in this book
Silverman explains the ways the US’s richest people have moved to the political right
Governing Bodies: A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed — Sangamithra Iyer
One of the book’s strengths is how it carefully recounts exposure to ideas that accumulate into belief and eventually into action.
This narrative unmooring, while unconventional, strikes me as a byproduct of Jong’s departure from high-control religion
Now More Than Ever – Greta Schledorn
What Schledorn reveals isn’t a secret self but the impossibility of having one.
The Woman Dies circumvented my critical brain: it made me laugh, shocked me, revealed my tastes to be safe rather than incisive.
In the Realm of Motes – Baptiste Gaillard
Human witnesses are nowhere in this book
Ṣẹ̀gílọlà Arómirẹ́ Ògìdán – Àrẹ̀mọ Yusuf Àlàbí Balógun
Her anger lives in the syntax, in sentences that run long, breathless, or suddenly halt.
The Porno President – Bruna Kalil Othero
“Tits or ass?” Othero’s novel urges us to consider this question in today’s political landscape