Had I Known – Barbara Ehrenreich
Thoughtfully selected and arranged, the chronological staggering of the texts in this volume underscores parallels across Ehrenreich’s more than three decades as a public intellectual and political commentator.
Translation is a Mode=Translation is an Anti-Neocolonial Mode – Don Mee Choi
The essay is a tightly woven crystallization of ideas that appear throughout Choi’s work, including linguistic nonequivalence and one’s sense of home under neocolonization.
The Book of Sleep – Haytham El Wardany
THE BOOK OF SLEEP leaves us with the triad of sleep, revolution, and poetry, each inseparable from the other. When we separate life from its utility, we come closer to free play, to liberation as an ever-ongoing struggle.
American Grief in Four Stages – Sadie Hoagland
Hoagland’s stories show the power of grief over time, and the stories reshape us.
Dreams of Being – Michael J. Seidlinger
A tightly wound novel that waxes philosophic on artistic identity and creative struggle.
Death in Her Hands – Ottessa Moshfegh
The open-endedness of Vesta’s mystery fulfills itself, because as Vesta said, “The last thing anyone should do is stuff her head full of other people’s ways of doing things. That would take all the fun out.”
I don’t worry whether or not my writing is innovative or experimental. I only want to be on that bookshelf, the one that’s off limits, that requires special permission to access, that has to be found and sought after from a queer distance.
The River at Night – Kevin Huizenga
At a time when history-altering acts take on an almost mundane insignificance, comics artist Kevin Huizenga’s THE RIVER AT NIGHT makes thought, banal and half-remembered quotidian thought, a moving drama of consciousness.
When the Whales Leave – Yuri Rytkheu
In this light, Chavasse’s translation is but one echo within a cavernous history, itself but a momentary iteration on its way to another.
Difficult Light – Tomás González
I remember my intuitive reluctance to use the word “deadline,” when I learned the word in English, it sounded hostile when someone told me for the first time: “You need to meet this deadline.” To get killed, I wondered?