Atlantic Hotel – João Gilberto Noll
ATLANTIC HOTEL’s moral compass is far wonkier than even the most clever parody of a hardboiled detective noir.
Wong’s speakers are possessed of a transforming power, but the physical realities around them push back, or bind them in ways they can’t escape.
Swallow the Fish – Gabrielle Civil
Civil upends our assumptions around artistic displays of the body, demands we consider the fact that performance art engages with unruly ghosts and wounded riddles.
When the doctor asked me if I had recently experienced a tragedy, I took the English translation out of my backpack, and read to her.
Our Dead World – Liliana Colanzi
Colanzi’s work moves in the opposite direction of Jung’s in every way; horror is a metaphysical humility.
The writing shows such a singular view of the world through an adolescent’s — then young man’s — then madman’s — eyes.
Everything Is Awful and You’re A Terrible Person – Daniel Zomparelli
To the extent that such exchanges are recognizable to the point where a chuckle turns into vague discomfort, Zomparelli’s collection paints a fairly accurate life of urban, or urban-adjacent, cis-gay men.
OROGENY generates mountains; dynamite destroys them. The cycle is complete; the circle closes. Or perhaps not.
ANGEL STATION is a seething novel of accumulation, fast, strange, and destructive.
The Kingdom of the Young – Edie Meidav
Although Meidav’s writing is lucid and subtly evocative, it really makes no effort to be “lyrical” or “rhapsodic.”