Bitter Water Opera – Nicolette Polek
She would force her own legacy
Something shakes up their lives that they cannot ignore, and they must continue the practice of daily life while fighting each battle internally, having to rely mainly on themselves for emotional strength
Auroville: A City of Dreams – Katarzyna Boni
[Boni] writes, “Auroville is not a utopia, it’s a laboratory. A transitional being between what is and what will be.” But what will be? After several decades, it’s clear that the same question haunts Auroville
Don’t Laugh at Other People’s Sex Lives; Beautiful Distance – Nao-Cola Yamazaki
Yamazaki breaks us and reforms us
Chimes: A Monologue – Tom Cole
Cole writes debasement and forfeiture with barbed ease. The power of being powerless, of succumbing to whatever comes along. It’s not defeatist because there is no template of success or failure
From the Solitude of the Waters of the River, From Nowhere
This novel is largely an attempt to draw a line—crooked, errant—from Maria’s nowhere to elsewhere
It Is Not Enough to Survive – Jesse Montgomery
On the Universalism of the Migrant Poor
The collection plays in an often melodious, sometimes jangling range of registers
The First Jasmines – Saima Begum
Without dedicated accounts of the voices and roles of women, national literary traditions are incomplete
“To Translate is to Remember How to Resist”
Translation, like motherhood, entails a level of invisible labor that often escapes the general public