I Hope You’re Happy – Marni Appleton
[The Indigo Press; 2025] Things sure have gotten weird, haven’t they? Younger generations, contextualized by the internet since birth, face the breakdown of their relationships to art. This breakdown reflects the jumbled, murky, often irretrievably frayed relationships they try to form with each other in a time when it’s difficult to identify the purpose of […]
Theory of Water – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
A timely meditation on relationality and worldbuilding, THEORY OF WATER explores what it means to live and learn alongside water.
The Accidentals – Guadalupe Nettel
These characters are all trying to not feel so alone, in a world that is at every turn isolating and disorienting. And of course they are—we all are.
A new linguistic imagination is required to capture the nuances of the emotional experiences of climate change
Ultramarine – Mariette Navarro
The sailor is a figure of subjectivity in and as flux, aspiring to the condition of the ever-changing sea.
I Put the Evening in the Drawer – Han Kang
If the central question of the translation debate is how Han writes, her poetry poses a deeper one: can she write at all?
You, From Below – Em J Parsley
At only fifty pages, YOU, FROM BELOW is epic in scope.
The Surrender of Man – Naomi Falk
How do you articulate with the limited construct of language something as rich and malleable as an emotional response to art?
There’s No Turning Back – Alba de Céspedes
One by one, the women of the Grimaldi will abandon the security of its walls, rather like an Il Duce-era Virgin Suicides.
Tiang allows readers to build trust with Shuang as a Dongbei-raised, Beijing-based writer who tells heart-felt stories with abundant humor and little outwardly emotional display.