Reviews

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness – Irene Solà

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Solà’s latest novel asks you to follow her across the line between the living and the dead, to hold fascism and goat husbandry together with light slanting across a kitchen floor.

Document – Amelia Rosselli

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How does something “die octoberish?”

I Hope You’re Happy – Marni Appleton

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[The Indigo Press; 2025] Things sure have gotten weird, haven’t they? Younger generations, contextualized by the internet since birth, face the breakdown of their relationships to art. This breakdown reflects the jumbled, murky, often irretrievably frayed relationships they try to form with each other in a time when it’s difficult to identify the purpose of […]

Theory of Water – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

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A timely meditation on relationality and worldbuilding, THEORY OF WATER explores what it means to live and learn alongside water.

The Accidentals – Guadalupe Nettel

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These characters are all trying to not feel so alone, in a world that is at every turn isolating and disorienting. And of course they are—we all are.

Immemorial – Lauren Markham

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A new linguistic imagination is required to capture the nuances of the emotional experiences of climate change

Ultramarine – Mariette Navarro

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The sailor is a figure of subjectivity in and as flux, aspiring to the condition of the ever-changing sea.

Except for Breath – Lucienne Bestall

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When it comes to talk of war––the city destroyed, the city inflamed––Bestall is attracted to Beirutians’ cool detachment, their resilience that shies away from heroism, their elegant remove, which characterizes so much of her writing.

I Put the Evening in the Drawer – Han Kang

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If the central question of the translation debate is how Han writes, her poetry poses a deeper one: can she write at all?

You, From Below – Em J Parsley

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At only fifty pages, YOU, FROM BELOW is epic in scope.