The Force of What’s Possible – Lily Hoang & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
The avant-garde, in prizing the possible, is always asking about — everything. Possibility and asking: fundamentally, the two intertwine.
The Guild of Saint Cooper – Shya Scanlon
The Guild of Saint Cooper feels less like Twin Peaks fanfiction than a novel written for an audience that will understand the joke.
The strangest thing that could happen in a story of modern, domestic malaise is for a struggling single mother not to, say, turn into a doily.
The Old Man and the Bench – Urs Allemann
It’s not spoiling anything to say that the old man’s twaddle does eventually stop.
Desire expands, complicates (to staples, to other women) when you fuck with clichés.
The Fall of Language in the Age of English – Minae Mizumura
The kids don’t read enough, but even if they do, they don’t read the good stuff.
I, Bartleby – Meredith Quartermain
I, Bartleby is reluctant to provide those markers we most associate with “short stories.”
First Year Healthy – Michael DeForge
An imaginative take on the difficult project of reintegrating into mainstream society after a mental health crisis that diagnoses our social and cultural systems as incapable of caring for others.
The Utopia of Rules – David Graeber
This book of essays stands out less for the questions it asks, than for the assumptions that it refuses to question.
The Foundling’s War – Michel Déon
An underreported entrance into the forum of American letters.