ALIEN STORIES feels very aware of itself and of how to make meaningful ideas connect with a broad audience: the stories are accessible, but thought-provoking, with clarity and concision.
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir – Michelle Zauner
What I can say for certain, though, is that as Zauner guided me through these corridors of her own life, little pieces of her world attached to me.
Noah Ross’ ACTIVE RECEPTION makes a raucous mess of sound and sense as part of its queer project of seeking kinship and pleasure within capitalism.
Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist – Marc Ribot
Seen as a genius and underappreciated musician by those initiated into the world of free jazz and noise guitar, Marc Ribot now reveals his ambitions as an author.
This is an experiment in explaining what it means to inhabit a body, a mother’s body, a baby’s body in this world and in other worlds.
A Good True Thai – Sunisa Manning
Though the action takes place nearly a half-century in the past, the novel’s core theme — resistance to entrenched power — could hardly be more relevant.
About 50 pages into Ferenc Barnás’s The Parasite I settled myself down for a ride that I thought would be like one of Thomas Bernhard’s, but darker, and more oblique
The Freezer Door – Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s THE FREEZER DOOR is an important book because it challenges our assumptions about the world, and in doing so, gives us hope that an alternative might be possible.
Rymbu’s frozen utopias, fiery refineries, crashing celestial bodies offer a flight-map, a conviction that poetry will be our door to the language, thought, and communion of freedom.
Lloret leans into the uncanny and absurd to illustrate the devastating and very real effects that capitalism and climate change have on everyday Chileans.