A new linguistic imagination is required to capture the nuances of the emotional experiences of climate change
Ultramarine – Mariette Navarro
The sailor is a figure of subjectivity in and as flux, aspiring to the condition of the ever-changing sea.
Except for Breath – Lucienne Bestall
When it comes to talk of war––the city destroyed, the city inflamed––Bestall is attracted to Beirutians’ cool detachment, their resilience that shies away from heroism, their elegant remove, which characterizes so much of her writing.
I Put the Evening in the Drawer – Han Kang
If the central question of the translation debate is how Han writes, her poetry poses a deeper one: can she write at all?
You, From Below – Em J Parsley
At only fifty pages, YOU, FROM BELOW is epic in scope.
The Surrender of Man – Naomi Falk
How do you articulate with the limited construct of language something as rich and malleable as an emotional response to art?
There’s No Turning Back – Alba de Céspedes
One by one, the women of the Grimaldi will abandon the security of its walls, rather like an Il Duce-era Virgin Suicides.
Lori Lamby’s Pink Notebook – Hilda Hilst
In Lori’s logic, to make a book is to process it through the cruel machine of the market.
Tiang allows readers to build trust with Shuang as a Dongbei-raised, Beijing-based writer who tells heart-felt stories with abundant humor and little outwardly emotional display.
The book is organized around the person of Sinno’s stepfather. She renders his presence and domination as suffocating. I shudder to acknowledge: that is not a metaphor.