Reviews

Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange — Katie Goh

by Vika Mujumdar

Fruit becomes an object and artifact of history, shaping the currents of the world and the present moment

Worldly Girls – Tamara Jong

by McKenzie Watson-Fore

This narrative unmooring, while unconventional, strikes me as a byproduct of Jong’s departure from high-control religion

Grand Rapids — Natasha Stagg

by Amber Ruth Paulen

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

by Holly Coleman

What Schledorn reveals isn’t a secret self but the impossibility of having one.

Sour Cherry — Natalia Theodoridou

by Amelia Brown

Theodoridou […] takes readers beyond named characters like Agnes and Eunice, and largely beyond hope.

In the Realm of Motes – Baptiste Gaillard

by Isabel Sobral Campos

Human witnesses are nowhere in this book

Gilded Rage – Jacob Silverman

by Roz Milner

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

by Samara Skolnik

One of the book’s strengths is how it carefully recounts exposure to ideas that accumulate into belief and eventually into action.

Stainless – Todd Grimson

by Max Callimanopulos

The vampire and the ex-rocker make a mournful pair: he with his ruined hands, she with her sad nocturnal life. He needs heroin; she needs blood. He has nothing left to live for; she hasn’t truly lived in centuries. 

The Salvage – Anbara Salam

by Alia Spartz

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