“There is No English Word”: The English Understand Wool – Helen DeWitt
DeWitt is an iconoclast, a rebel whose heart is with the young and the awkward, with the off-kilter ultra who feels more and knows more than anyone else at the game.
The White Mosque – Sofia Samatar
Who hasn’t wanted to swallow whole the stories we love?
In its complex imbrication of queerness and heteropatriarchy, indigenous critique and colonial discourse, Pina stages the bizarre and beautiful workings of desire.
If our eyes let external horrors enter us, our jaws reverse the equation.
Fandom: The Next Generation – ed. Bridget Kies and Megan Connor
As reboots, remakes, universe extensions, and homages populate more and more of the cultural landscape, a whole set of turf battles comes along with them.
Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either – Marisa Tirado
I often wonder if it is just as lonely to be the last family member to speak a mother tongue as the first to not know the family language.
What happens to idealism across time, across a lifetime, across generations? And how do we—or should we—respond to a failed utopia?
The centering of urine rejects poetry’s traditional subjects in favor of a more egalitarian common denominator.
Diego Garcia – Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams
At their new locations, where they were predictably marginalized and bereft of home and familiarity, many [Chagossians] suffered a heartache so severe that it commonly caused death.
99 Interruptions – Charles Boyle
A slim, hybrid collection of thoughts, memories, wisdom, [it] may feel slight in the hand but it sits heavily in the heart.