Review

Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary – Maddie Ballard

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… Of all art forms, clothing is particularly close to the self.

Algarabía – Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

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His hero does not fight monstrous beings, but those who marginalize him as monstrous.

Arcticologies – Lowell Duckert

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Reading it feels like scooping wet snow with a large shovel on an unseasonably warm winter morning

Berlin Atomized – Julia Kornberg

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We can’t use irony to cope with catastrophe forever.

Bodies Found in Various Places – Elvira Hernández

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Hernández offers readers a poetry of survival and disturbance, but only as much as we can cup in our hands.

Hymn to Moray Eels – Mireille Best

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Why love a boy just on the basis of his boy-ness?

The Other Girl – Annie Ernaux

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Rather than recounting a biography, Ernaux is writing into a silence.

A Very Cold Winter – Fausta Cialente

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War, and its constitutive masculinism, threatens everyone’s dreams, chances, and sense of selves.

Magadh – Shrikant Verma

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Rahul Soni’s translation makes space in English for a bridge between the historic and the contemporary, offering a critique of power across time and space. 

Ugliness – Moshtari Hilal

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The nose is not just cartilage and skin; it is inheritance, race, femininity, a mark of refusal, a repository of hatred and desire.