Reviews

The Pussy Detective – DuVay Knox

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An occult, erotic mystery featuring a detective, Reverend Daddy Hoodoo, who specializes in locating the metaphysically missing genitalia of women.

Paradais – Fernanda Melchor

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In her horror writing, Melchor fuses the mythological and contemporary influences that characterize present-day Latin America.

The Love Parade – Sergio Pitol

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“The talk in The Love Parade is motivated by the classic structure of the detective plot.”

Someone Told Me – Jay Ponteri

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In Someone Told Me, Jay Ponteri writes toward change, with freedom being his primary literary device.

The Moon Over Edgar – Ian Felice

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This collection advocates for attention to dreams, the uncanny, the mundane, and the moon as if now is the time to devote ourselves to that possibility rather than, like Edgar, letting our life pass before us.

Bed – Elizabeth Metzger

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The bed serves as a vantage point, a site of deep self-knowledge, and a realm of attentive care.

A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems – Gillian Conoley

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Gillian Conoley’s oeuvre celebrates an animated sense of multiple engagements not unlike the art of cinema.

The Employees – Olga Ravn

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“In Olga Ravn’s The Employees humans and humanoids show a way forward for a calamitous earth.”

The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon and Other Stories of the Brazilian Rainforest – Fábio Zuker

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An interesting consequence occurs in the titular tale, when time seems to proceed not along any linear or standardized path, but according to the Minke Whale’s appearance, disappearance, reappearance.

Teenager- Bud Smith

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Teenager shreds the American dream during its long embrace.