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.
The Silentiary – Antonio Di Benedetto
Is noise a condition from which, once exposed, one cannot recover?
Living Pictures – Polina Barskova
Barskova, throughout her career, has used her historical research as the starting point for creative works, producing opportunities to breathe new, imaginative life into an archived past.
Even with his cosmic horror operating on a trans-dimensional scale, we are centered on his characters as they struggle through pain, moral dilemmas, and fraught relationships.
Emar reminds us that neither in books nor in life do we ever have direct access to reality, but that this can serve as a liberating restraint, an invitation to create.
The novel provides insight toward and empathy with people struggling with disordered eating and shows how online social groups and real-life communities can exacerbate or perpetuate those struggles