Reviews

Lost Objects – Marian Womack

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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

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Freaks rarely please everyone, but they are beloved by someone.

Subterrane – Valérie Bah

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[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

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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.

Tabia 32 – Alexei Konakov

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Everyone (or almost everyone) seems to be perfectly happy living in a chess utopia.

The Use of Photography – Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie

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Writing and photography together . . . become a way . . . to gesture at absence, to make clearer the shape of what is missing in order to more fully read the photograph.

Feminism in Revolt: Carla Lonzi – ed. Luisa Lorenza Corna and Jamila M. H. Mascat

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Ultimately, we live domination in our everyday lives, even in the relationships where we are supposed to be most cherished.

If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose – Refaat Alareer

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An indispensable living document of a people’s fight against annihilation and a thesis statement on what makes us human.

Alternative Facts – Emily Greenberg

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Greenberg depicts these figures with sympathy, at times poignancy, yet never with forgiveness.

Nevermore – Cécile Wajsbrot

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NEVERMORE takes me closer than any other novel I have read to the exacting work of translation.