In MANHUNT, coming of age means coming to grips with powerlessness.
Justice Piece // Transmission – Lauren Levin
The felt political reality flickers into visibility: readers experience themselves caught in the weft, in contact with and transformed by a perspective that couldn’t have been otherwise articulated.
Touch Me Not: A Most Rare Compendium of the Whole Magical Art
Okay, sure — but what exactly happens if you perform magic with #FakeSigils?
BTTM FDRS – Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore
One wonders what kind of blood-curdling monster story might have come out of CLTR VLTR.
Exquisite Mariposa – Fiona Alison Duncan
Its first bites taste like mainstream contemporary fiction; they go down easy, like candy, or like a Sally Rooney novel. But as you continue to chew — because this novel is chewy — you encounter something quite different.
Autobiography of Horse – Jenifer Sang Eun Park
Maybe the horse is fucking with her.
Devonte Travels the Sorry Route – T.J. Anderson III
Poetry starves without the sharing of ideas and drafts, books and meals, misery and laughter.
There is motive to this movement, if difficult female narrators can be called a movement.
The Next Loves – Stéphane Bouquet
It’s not fair to call the poems in THE NEXT LOVES sex positive, because it’s more complicated than that. They’re sex inhabited.
The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa
That there should be such ambiguity between perpetrator and victim is, it seems, part of the tragedy of totalitarianism: one can fully escape neither victimhood nor complicity.