Reviews

Connotary – Ae Hee Lee

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Through her precisely beautiful lyric, Ae Hee Lee offers vivid remembrances of family, gesture, and place; she examines pasts and origins; she imagines new futures.

Bee Reaved – Dodie Bellamy

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Bellamy luxuriates in the vulgar and abject, and she returns, time and time again, to the body. This is true of all her work, and BEE REAVED, her new collection of essays, is no different.

When We Cease to Understand the World – Benjamín Labatut

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Labatut’s novel is a stunning book about epistemic breaks – about sudden ideas that shatter across an age.

How to Build a Home for the End of the World – Keely Shinners

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When we are all sick, all the time (as we are now), and it is not seen as abnormal (as it is now), we can take care of each other. This is what capitalism desperately wants us to not do.

Waiting for Fear – Oğuz Atay

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What Atay stood for in Turkey, which once dreamed that it was a distant European nation, is gone and done for, and he is now lonelier than even when he was alive.

How We Are Translated – Jessica Gaitán Johannesson

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In her debut novel, Johannesson brings forth discussions that have long existed (the experience of being between languages) as well as new ones (contemporary tensions over displaced people), joining the two under one specific idea: translation.

The History of America in My Lifetime – Brooks Sterritt

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A satire of our data-driven societies, of modern surveillance systems, and of the irrationality of the Western world, it is a novel about capitalist America and our struggle to understand it.

When I Sing, Mountains Dance – Irene Solà

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When I Sing, Mountains Dance is a novel brimming with hope for future generations, and for the vitality of the Pyrenees mountains.

There’s a Disco Ball Between Us – Jafari S. Allen

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Lyrical, genre-bending writing, which undoes, unstitches, and shakes off normative ideas about how Black/gay life is conceived and lived

Far Sector – N. K. Jemisin

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Jemisin understands what works about superhero books and then uses it to move the readers through a narrative so subjective that they are forced to deal with some of the most profound political crises we have just lived through.