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
The noises that Kharkiv is missing—voices chattering, music playing, cars honking—speak most loudly
Fourteen Ways of Looking – Erin Vincent
Vincent unzips and bares grief’s spiraling need for sense-making
Cringe is surprisingly bodily