Battalion Shaped Girl – Temperance Aghamohammadi
For Aghamohammadi, sensory input is more than data; it is life’s performance of a song by way of you
[Whitmore] wrote a classic queer book that has fortunately been given a new life and retains all its powerful weirdness
Realistic Fiction – Anton Solomonik
Realistic Fiction offers a playful interrogation of genre and storytelling, and provides knowing insight into the trap of normative gender.
In a Deep Blue Hour — Peter Stamm
“In a Deep Blue Hour, the latest novel by Swiss writer Peter Stamm, unfolds in . . . [the] interstice between documentary and narrative film, reality and fiction, memory and dream.”
Sakina’s Kiss – Vivek Shanbhag
SAKINA’S KISS is an attempt to travel between two […] islands, the village Gothic and the urban global
Places in the Dark – Lidmila Kábrtová
Why bother being good when paradise was never promised?
Wickerwork – Christian Lehnert
Nature crafts its own metaphors
The novel is a portrait of growing up and growing old, twin phenomena that run in the same direction yet seem somehow opposed
The Equestrian Turtle and Other Poems – César Moro
Through a surrealist style, the poet plunges us into the complexities of a homoerotic love and into the depths of his symbolism.
A Prague Flâneur – Vítězslav Nezval
Prague surpasses its “practical necessity” and expands into a dynamic host for memories