The Surrender of Man – Naomi Falk
How do you articulate with the limited construct of language something as rich and malleable as an emotional response to art?
There’s No Turning Back – Alba de Céspedes
One by one, the women of the Grimaldi will abandon the security of its walls, rather like an Il Duce-era Virgin Suicides.
Lori Lamby’s Pink Notebook – Hilda Hilst
In Lori’s logic, to make a book is to process it through the cruel machine of the market.
Tiang allows readers to build trust with Shuang as a Dongbei-raised, Beijing-based writer who tells heart-felt stories with abundant humor and little outwardly emotional display.
The book is organized around the person of Sinno’s stepfather. She renders his presence and domination as suffocating. I shudder to acknowledge: that is not a metaphor.
The Thomas Salto – Timmy Straw
The Thomas Salto, a poetry collection largely set in and informed by the Reagan Era, reflects on the supposed timelessness of the 1980s, the American “golden age” the contemporary moment often nostalgically returns to.
The Mask of el Santo – Daniel Rosa Hunter
What happens when, in autofiction […] the writer adopts the persona of a masked figure from the world of professional wrestling?
Apparent Breviary – Gastón Fernández
The breviary is “apparent” because the spaces on the page—the vacuum between words—is every bit as meaningful as the words themselves. For the poet, Gastón Fernández, words are only apparent. Real prayer happens in emptiness, in silence
A Fictional Inquiry – Daniele Del Giudice
In A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, representation is a matter of collecting loose ends and leaving them loose.
At times, it reads like a breathless impatience for the release of an orgasm: “Upon hearing the longed-for sound of the door after heaving my weight against it, I quickly put the key I’m already holding into the lock of my apartment and turn it, and once this second anticipated sound has been confirmed, I slip inside the door.”
The Surrender of Man – Naomi Falk
How do you articulate with the limited construct of language something as rich and malleable as an emotional response to art?
The book is organized around the person of Sinno’s stepfather. She renders his presence and domination as suffocating. I shudder to acknowledge: that is not a metaphor.
There’s No Turning Back – Alba de Céspedes
One by one, the women of the Grimaldi will abandon the security of its walls, rather like an Il Duce-era Virgin Suicides.
Tiang allows readers to build trust with Shuang as a Dongbei-raised, Beijing-based writer who tells heart-felt stories with abundant humor and little outwardly emotional display.
Lori Lamby’s Pink Notebook – Hilda Hilst
In Lori’s logic, to make a book is to process it through the cruel machine of the market.
The Mask of el Santo – Daniel Rosa Hunter
What happens when, in autofiction […] the writer adopts the persona of a masked figure from the world of professional wrestling?