Rather than crafting a character study or a love-at-first-sight romance (though the novel includes elements of both), Ganieva attempts to encapsulate Dagestan’s complexities, interrogating its customs, politics, and religion.
The Juniper Tree – Barbara Comyns
One of the scariest moments of THE JUNIPER TREE is nothing more than the sight of some flowers on the floor.
The Garbage Times / White Ibis – Sam Pink
It’s THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY in a funnier, sustained alt lit sentegraph.
Camp Marmalade – Wayne Koestenbaum
I don’t care how these books were really made. The fetish of process reminds me too much of the marketing strategies behind twice-distilled commercial bourbons and locally-sourced corporate burrito chains.
The Chandelier – Clarice Lispector
The words they use include ones like sorceress, saint, superhuman, and sphinx. Otherwise, they refer to her by her first name alone.
The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner
It appears that Kushner wants readers to believe — and feel — that the book is transparent, almost literally true.
The Infinite Future – Tim Wirkus
To visit another world and glean its wisdom and come back with it — that is the task of the translator.
The Comedown – Rebekah Frumkin
One wonders indeed how far back we might trace the sources of a family’s anxieties, the original sins of the original fathers, a neurotic first mover.
moore’s own practice of writing FABULOUS extends his project, creating another, more intangible and theoretical, place for these brown, queer, and fabulous lives.
Missives from the Green Campaign – David Armstrong
We exchange small gods for growing things, and are content.