The Book of Disappearance – Ibtisam Azem
Through evocative prose and incisive characterization, Azem has performed a small miracle: a short novel that powerfully scrutinizes every element of contemporary Israeli society, and the illusory narratives driving the endeavor.
Everyone (or almost everyone) seems to be perfectly happy living in a chess utopia.
The Use of Photography – Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie
Writing and photography together . . . become a way . . . to gesture at absence, to make clearer the shape of what is missing in order to more fully read the photograph.
Feminism in Revolt: Carla Lonzi – ed. Luisa Lorenza Corna and Jamila M. H. Mascat
Ultimately, we live domination in our everyday lives, even in the relationships where we are supposed to be most cherished.
If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose – Refaat Alareer
An indispensable living document of a people’s fight against annihilation and a thesis statement on what makes us human.
Alternative Facts – Emily Greenberg
Greenberg depicts these figures with sympathy, at times poignancy, yet never with forgiveness.
NEVERMORE takes me closer than any other novel I have read to the exacting work of translation.
[It’s a] privilege to witness such a wide variety of minds going at it, appreciating, remembering, confronting, excoriating an entire universe of art, from the canvases of Degas and Watteau to the Akkadian-carved basalt stele of Hammurabi.
Making Love with the Land – Joshua Whitehead
MAKING LOVE WITH THE LAND is a revelation of the many forms queerness can take, an expansion, a celebration of an ever-widening canon.
A unique specimen of story and art that revisits the “personal is political” slogan of second wave feminism, while drawing attention to the intimate or personal aspects of living with the consequences of oppressive religion and patriarchy.