Arborescent – Marc Herman Lynch
Marc Herman Lynch’s ARBORESCENT luxuriates in the space between the familiar and the fantastic, dipping into both ends of the spectrum to paint a richly layered contemporary folk tale.
Edie Richter is Not Alone – Rebecca Handler
There is the belief that a person needs to have hit rock bottom in order to recover, but only a talented author, like Rebecca Handler, can show us what that looks like in gritty, realistic and darkly hilarious detail.
Permanent Revolution – Gail Scott
Gail Scott envisions an active meaning, sentence, and subject-in-becoming that wrestles in continuous interplay with the wider ecology around it.
In an attempt to uncenter the human — and any center, for that matter — Field replaces hierarchy with an ecology.
PERSONHOOD suggests that Thalia Field’s audacious verbal imagination has started to become merely the available instrument for promulgating an increasingly familiar message.
In frank: sonnets, Seuss inextricably ties herself to her poetic voice, revealing childhood memories and adult indiscretions with fierce bluntness.
On Time and Water – Andri Snӕr Magnason
It is a deeply personal reckoning with individual and collective responsibility in a time of reckless consumption, and a rich tapestry of myth, memory, and wonder.
A River Called Time – Courttia Newland
By telling a story through parallel universes, the future and the past become inseparable, allowing A RIVER CALLED TIME to be both visionary and reflective all at once.
Notes Made While Falling – Jenn Ashworth
Ashworth’s memoir project — “about my body gone missing”— demands that critics likewise confront their stake in narratives of trauma, illness, and disability.
ALIEN STORIES feels very aware of itself and of how to make meaningful ideas connect with a broad audience: the stories are accessible, but thought-provoking, with clarity and concision.