The Red Zone: A Love Story – Chloe Caldwell
By calling out American culture’s redirection of empowered female embodiment into ignorance and shame, Caldwell stages an intervention in what can be called “American menstrual culture.”
The Bear Woman – Karolina Ramqvist
Ramqvist’s excavation of the process of creation and research, delay and anxiety, is both multi-layered and intriguing.
Gentlemen Callers – Corinne Hoex
These men are anonymous outside of their professions and even their professions serve only to creatively appease female desire.
Gallery of Clouds – Rachel Eisendrath
What Eisendrath needs is the regeneration of pastoral romance, to orchestrate the end that is also a beginning.
trans(re)lating house one – Poupeh Missaghi
It is rare I encounter a work that is so formally perfectly realized of itself that it is almost painfully exciting to read; the space of the page becomes increasingly charged from the precise and repeating shapes.
The present is where Castro relishes his attention, but it’s a present layered with memory and subjectivity.
Moldy Strawberries – Caio Fernando Abreu
An existentialist dread runs throughout the narratives as they are marked by an exploration of the self, expressing the fears of a generation facing incredible challenges.
Everything is Totally Fine – Zac Smith
If there is one thing Smith’s time capsule of Americana can teach us is to listen to our dreams and nightmares and allow them to prompt new ways of living.
Everything Like Before – Kjell Askildsen
Askildsen’s particular gift is the subtle way he imbues these mundane moments with so much frustration and rage, which creates an atmosphere of electric disquiet.
Having combed real-life storytelling for narrative ticks, she seems to have grown out of them, seeking another, meta and autofictional register in her own writing.