Hypermobilities – Ellen Samuels
The symptoms could be hers; they could also be ours.
The Secret Adventures of Order – Vincent Czyz
Czyz remains on guard against prose writers whose search for the poetic slides into squashy self-indulgence, like someone picking up a karaoke microphone with a mistaken confidence that they really can sing.
Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning – Liz Prato
Truth and reconciliation: it’s not something we do well here in the United States.
For many, regimes of misremembrance can feel like opening a closet full of skeletons, only to find beautiful shoes.
All of the lives described in Far West are in some way beholden to the mercy of their surroundings, its influence inescapable.
These Dark Skies – Arianne Zwartjes
A powerful antidote to loneliness, apathy, and the myth of perfect politics.
The Drowned Forest – Angela Barry
In a book about the struggle for authenticity amidst artifice, for freedom amidst falsification, her unique form is an expansive and exciting way forward.
Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf – Malika Moustadraf
Translated from the Arabic by Alice Guthrie, Blood Feast is a collection of fourteen stories that hiss and spit back at forms of unjust authority.
Little Foxes Took Up Matches – Katya Kazbek
Kazbek weaves the fairy tale’s threads into a larger queer narrative to complicate questions of gender and sexuality.
Pictures of the Shark – Thomas H. McNeely
He knows his characters so well that he can tend more closely to the surface, allowing the dark underbelly to show only when absolutely demanded by the story.