Tawada’s is a fiction of resistance — to capitalism, imperialism, normative emotional expectations — and that can, sometimes, look a lot like cruelty.
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.