Review

Goat Song – Konstantin Vaginov

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Exploiting the experience of others, Whistlin turns living people into hollow characters, artificial objects in both senses of the word.

The Möbius Book – Catherine Lacey

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Lacey writes how Meg White drums: layered simplicity, phrase by primal phrase.

Río Muerto – Ricardo Silva Romero

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This choice—to speak or remain silent—is the hinge upon which Silva Romero’s RÍO MUERTO turns

When The Horses – Mary Helen Callier

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In this collection, light is less revealing than it is blinding, distortive and receding.

The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital – Leopoldina Fortunati

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In addition to being rigorous, Fortunati’s text is ruthless, stripping away every plank of Marx’s platform to show the underside of labor, the women’s work that wasn’t worth his noting.

Howling Women – Shelby Hinte

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Shelby Hinte’s debut novel HOWLING WOMEN investigates curiosity over blame, looking at the story beneath action.

True Failure – Alex Higley

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All Ben possesses is a “raw, empty want” and his own unemployed self. Inside this absence, TRUE FAILURE’s antics begin to populate.

An Incomplete Catalog of Disappearance – Diana Oropeza

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Oropeza coaxes you to lean in closer, embrace the precarity of invisibility, death, and all other forms of disappearance

Book of Potions – Lauren K. Watel

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BOOK OF POTIONS begins by defining a new literary form: “potion = poem + fiction.”

Speak/Stop – Noémi Lefebvre

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Literature, as Lefebvre reads it, cannot be reduced to language, or genre, or nation—fluidity is more productive, more generous, more expansive.