For many, regimes of misremembrance can feel like opening a closet full of skeletons, only to find beautiful shoes.
All of the lives described in Far West are in some way beholden to the mercy of their surroundings, its influence inescapable.
These Dark Skies – Arianne Zwartjes
A powerful antidote to loneliness, apathy, and the myth of perfect politics.
The Drowned Forest – Angela Barry
In a book about the struggle for authenticity amidst artifice, for freedom amidst falsification, her unique form is an expansive and exciting way forward.
Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf – Malika Moustadraf
Translated from the Arabic by Alice Guthrie, Blood Feast is a collection of fourteen stories that hiss and spit back at forms of unjust authority.
Little Foxes Took Up Matches – Katya Kazbek
Kazbek weaves the fairy tale’s threads into a larger queer narrative to complicate questions of gender and sexuality.
Pictures of the Shark – Thomas H. McNeely
He knows his characters so well that he can tend more closely to the surface, allowing the dark underbelly to show only when absolutely demanded by the story.
She Is Haunted mixes elements of melodrama—the mother-daughter psychodrama above all—into a traumatic temporality in which the past is never-ending.
The fragments on the page show the reader what it is to try and create time in the newborn days.
Ghost Geographies – Tamas Dobozy
His displaced, disoriented characters, who have lived through wars, upheavals, revolutions, and state failures, stand at the end of history and speak to our own turbulent times.