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
Bitter Water Opera – Nicolette Polek
She would force her own legacy
Something shakes up their lives that they cannot ignore, and they must continue the practice of daily life while fighting each battle internally, having to rely mainly on themselves for emotional strength
Auroville: A City of Dreams – Katarzyna Boni
[Boni] writes, “Auroville is not a utopia, it’s a laboratory. A transitional being between what is and what will be.” But what will be? After several decades, it’s clear that the same question haunts Auroville
Don’t Laugh at Other People’s Sex Lives; Beautiful Distance – Nao-Cola Yamazaki
Yamazaki breaks us and reforms us
Chimes: A Monologue – Tom Cole
Cole writes debasement and forfeiture with barbed ease. The power of being powerless, of succumbing to whatever comes along. It’s not defeatist because there is no template of success or failure
From the Solitude of the Waters of the River, From Nowhere
This novel is largely an attempt to draw a line—crooked, errant—from Maria’s nowhere to elsewhere
It Is Not Enough to Survive – Jesse Montgomery
On the Universalism of the Migrant Poor
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 First Jasmines – Saima Begum
Without dedicated accounts of the voices and roles of women, national literary traditions are incomplete
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
Something shakes up their lives that they cannot ignore, and they must continue the practice of daily life while fighting each battle internally, having to rely mainly on themselves for emotional strength
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