This Reasonable Habit – Rainer Diana Hamilton and Violet Spurlock
Hamilton and Spurlock turn a conversation into art
Modern Woman — Edith Södergran
The sibilance of the “s” alliteration creates a shushing sound that suggests a candle snuffed out by the wind to symbolize the end of a life, an effect that is enhanced in the translated version.
When We Are Kin – Kyle T. Mays
Mays critiques identitarian preconceptions we might have of Afro-Indigeneity
Attention may very well be the hardest survival skill for us to tap.
[Granta; 2026] Writing about Ben Lerner has long felt to me like an act of hubris. The grace with which he articulates his own artistic vision—in the work itself, in discussing it, and when engaging with the work of others—seems to raise the stakes of a piece of writing like this one. What can one […]
Thunder Song – Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
Each word resonates, reverberating ancestry.
The Twenties – Varlam Shalamov
Shalamov conveys a sense of lost collectivity
Brother Epistles – Shanda McManus
[Brother Epistles] reads like a lyric experiment in time travel
Château Rouge – Amit Chaudhuri
A modern-day Hemingway would be an M&S shopper, too.
The Rage Letters – Valérie Bah
Even as they inject the stories with magical realism, the collection is grounded by an understanding of the systems of oppression that beget antiBlackness, fetishization, white supremacy, racial capitalism, etc. However, Bah is not defeatist. Black queer and trans people create new languages and new ways of being
Modern Woman — Edith Södergran
The sibilance of the “s” alliteration creates a shushing sound that suggests a candle snuffed out by the wind to symbolize the end of a life, an effect that is enhanced in the translated version.
The Rage Letters – Valérie Bah
Even as they inject the stories with magical realism, the collection is grounded by an understanding of the systems of oppression that beget antiBlackness, fetishization, white supremacy, racial capitalism, etc. However, Bah is not defeatist. Black queer and trans people create new languages and new ways of being
The Twenties – Varlam Shalamov
Shalamov conveys a sense of lost collectivity
The Rage Letters – Valérie Bah
Even as they inject the stories with magical realism, the collection is grounded by an understanding of the systems of oppression that beget antiBlackness, fetishization, white supremacy, racial capitalism, etc. However, Bah is not defeatist. Black queer and trans people create new languages and new ways of being
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