The Light That Burns Us – Jazra Khaleed
By tampering with Greek and utilizing it as the matter of his poetry, Khaleed breaks down and interrupts this monocultural and monolinguistic assumption of who is supposed to be part of the Greek nation state.
Copi upends all, like an escape artist wriggling free of narrative’s straitjacket.
A/S/L follows three trans women in their 30s, all of whom worked on a video game as teenagers
Viscera: Eight Voices from Poland – Mark Tardi (ed.)
Each poem in VISCERA operates in its own stylistic universe, but all of them are connected through their freedom to exist, side-by-side, without a message or plot.
Bad Houses – John Elizabeth Stintzi
Stintzi’s is a collection of bizarre, surreal tales that take many angles on being haunted by homes. Though the narrative conceits might flirt with caricature, the characters within them feel painfully real.
LOST OBJECTS shows us humanity at its most atomized, out of control, hoping and fearing and going mad.
Sillyboy – Peter Vack; The Champ is Here – Nathan Dragon
Freaks rarely please everyone, but they are beloved by someone.
[Zeynab’s] film asks audience members to change how they view the displaced. But to do this they must change how they view themselves, and they don’t want to. So, they twist in their seats, feeling scrutinized and provoked.
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.