The Wilderness – Ayşegül Savaş
Savaş’s prose . . . in its sharpness and clarity, never loses sight of the new mother as shaped by the world, by culture, by history, and most of all, by familial networks of care.
Thanks for This Riot – Janelle Bassett
Connections, too often, mean relinquishing control, and none of the women in THANKS FOR THIS RIOT have enough to spare.
Grandma Non-Oui – Lidija Dimkovska
Lidija Dimkovska’s new novel . . . explores how history mirrors human life itself: complex, recursive, non-linear, and defiantly inconclusive.
California Against the Sea – Rosanna Xia
For Xia, the changing landscape is an opportunity to rectify past wrongs done to the environment and, in addition, to those who have been harmed in tandem with it.
Underground Barbie – Maša Kolanović
For a novel set during debilitating times, UNDERGROUND BARBIE is frequently quite funny. The seriousness is masterfully cut, and paradoxically intensified, by the antics of the children and the scenarios they dream up.
My Child, the Algorithm – Hannah Silva
Queerness . . . is both liberating and disorienting—it explodes stifling boundaries, yet doesn’t dictate exactly how to live in the aftermath. Queer parenthood complicates this further.
The Summer Without You – Petar Andonovski
Despite its setting on the sun-soaked coast of Crete, THE SUMMER WITHOUT YOU shivers with the cold reckonings of disillusionment and adulthood
With her steady, precise attention to everyday life on this sad, cozy ward, Gråbøl gently troubles our received ideas about healing.
In UXA.GOV, complicity has its price, and there is no such things as a passive observer.
Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir – Chase Joynt
A curious mix of reflection and commentary on male privilege and abuse . . . frame[d] . . . through the theories of Marshall McLuhan, someone who fascinates [Joynt] both as an academic and as a distant relative.