A Psalm for the Wild-Built – Becky Chambers
Humanity has built up robots so completely that it has become clear that they are sentient and deserving of legal personhood, and their foundational role in our chain of production is one that robs them of their freedom
Out of Nowhere into Nothing – Caryl Pagel
Pagel’s collection of 10 braided essays tour the personal, the grotesque, the uncanny, and peculiar — a constant reminder of our attachment to the invisible.
Men in My Situation – Per Petterson
The writer returns to the trauma every decade or so to see if this time his stunt man can catapult himself into the twenty-first century.
The Communicating Vessels – Friederike Mayröcker
Ultimately, more than positively being about something, the book hints at eliminating such a possibility altogether.
Another departure in Heaven is the refusal to acknowledge death as the final act of human life.
While the moral of EX LIBRIS may feel a touch on-the-nose, in a time when new forms of media have weaponized our penchant for groupthink, and inherited ways of life are leading us into ecological collapse, I’m not sure it has ever been more important for us to hear it.
Nandana’s translation of Acrobat, then, is a material necessity that achieves her mother’s standards in a compelling and artful way.
Through her precisely beautiful lyric, Ae Hee Lee offers vivid remembrances of family, gesture, and place; she examines pasts and origins; she imagines new futures.
Bellamy luxuriates in the vulgar and abject, and she returns, time and time again, to the body. This is true of all her work, and BEE REAVED, her new collection of essays, is no different.
When We Cease to Understand the World – Benjamín Labatut
Labatut’s novel is a stunning book about epistemic breaks – about sudden ideas that shatter across an age.