Reviews

The Salvage – Anbara Salam

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Because we are so close to Marta and her guilt, we see her holding onto anchors that are causing her to sink.

I Do Know Some Things – Richard Siken

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The story of I DO KNOW SOME THINGS is palpable, welling at every edge with urgency

Apotheosis of Music – Witold Wirpsza

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For Wirpsza, a fugue can be a person, notes can be nails that stick in one’s head, and God himself can play the piano of humankind

The High Heaven – Joshua Wheeler

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The High Heaven strays far from southern New Mexico. And yet, part of its power derives from the ways in which the region remains present.

Lonely Women Make Good Lovers – Keetje Kuipers

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For Kuipers, the body is the departure point for exploration

Battalion Shaped Girl – Temperance Aghamohammadi

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For Aghamohammadi, sensory input is more than data; it is life’s performance of a song by way of you

Absence — Issa Quincy

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How does one write a novel about things that are not there? About the missing, the lost, the absent? Or is this the only kind of writing there is?

Nebraska – George Whitmore

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[Whitmore] wrote a classic queer book that has fortunately been given a new life and retains all its powerful weirdness

Realistic Fiction – Anton Solomonik

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Realistic Fiction offers a playful interrogation of genre and storytelling, and provides knowing insight into the trap of normative gender.

In a Deep Blue Hour — Peter Stamm

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“In a Deep Blue Hour, the latest novel by Swiss writer Peter Stamm, unfolds in . . . [the] interstice between documentary and narrative film, reality and fiction, memory and dream.”

The High Heaven – Joshua Wheeler

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The High Heaven strays far from southern New Mexico. And yet, part of its power derives from the ways in which the region remains present.

Tamangur – Leta Semadeni

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The novel is a portrait of growing up and growing old, twin phenomena that run in the same direction yet seem somehow opposed

Apotheosis of Music – Witold Wirpsza

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For Wirpsza, a fugue can be a person, notes can be nails that stick in one’s head, and God himself can play the piano of humankind

In a Deep Blue Hour — Peter Stamm

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“In a Deep Blue Hour, the latest novel by Swiss writer Peter Stamm, unfolds in . . . [the] interstice between documentary and narrative film, reality and fiction, memory and dream.”

Ṣẹ̀gílọlà Arómirẹ́ Ògìdán – Àrẹ̀mọ Yusuf Àlàbí Balógun

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Her anger lives in the syntax, in sentences that run long, breathless, or suddenly halt.

The Porno President – Bruna Kalil Othero

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“Tits or ass?” Othero’s novel urges us to consider this question in today’s political landscape