In the Black Fantastic – ed. Ekow Eshun
Even surging past the final frontier, the Black fantastic remains aware of the constraints it aims to explode.
Normal, Regular, and Rich: Charlie Markbreiter’s Gossip Girl Fan Novella
What becomes clear over the course of Gossip Girl Fan Novella is that no one has a very good grasp on what constitutes “normalcy” or “real life.”
Other People’s Beds – Anna Punsoda
Reading difficult work [is] an act of reconnaissance: scoping out different containers into which we can imagine pouring our otherwise formless and messy thoughts, memories, and observations.
Alindarka’s Children – Alhierd Bacharevič
To be a child of Alindarka is to be a child of linguistic confusion, to be perpetually misunderstood.
Carmelina: Figures & Virgil Kills: Stories – Ronaldo V. Wilson
Neither doubles nor doppelgangers of one another, Wilson and Carmelina, son and mother, make us rethink the question of lineage in new and unpredictable ways.
You’ll Like It Here – Ashton Politanoff
Doesn’t nostalgia just mean, “I miss you?”
“There is No English Word”: The English Understand Wool – Helen DeWitt
DeWitt is an iconoclast, a rebel whose heart is with the young and the awkward, with the off-kilter ultra who feels more and knows more than anyone else at the game.
The White Mosque – Sofia Samatar
Who hasn’t wanted to swallow whole the stories we love?
In its complex imbrication of queerness and heteropatriarchy, indigenous critique and colonial discourse, Pina stages the bizarre and beautiful workings of desire.
If our eyes let external horrors enter us, our jaws reverse the equation.