Baglin catalogues those small psychological adjustments that are as important to learn as Point-of-Sale technology or managerial abbreviations if one wants to stay afloat in the modern workplace.
Set Change — Yuri Andrukhovych
A land of constant instability and change, Andrukhovych’s poetic world is simultaneously hopeless — the future is uncertain, cut short — and teeming with the hope of a reclaimed past, which is never out of reach.
To write about what you see online treads the thin line between exposing others and exposing yourself.
Living in Your Light — Abdellah Taïa
“There is no more animosity now,” Malika thinks, “We are equals.” Through this queer experience, Malika is not led to a new identitarian category (like zamel), but rather is able to disrupt the normative power imbalance between colonizer and colonial subject — at least for a moment.
Audition by New Zealand writer Pip Adam starts with an unconventional premise. Three giants (Stanley, Alba, and Drew) are in a spaceship named Audition; their bodies keep growing if they remain silent, but their noise is what propels the ship in space, so they have to keep talking.
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness – Irene Solà
Solà’s latest novel asks you to follow her across the line between the living and the dead, to hold fascism and goat husbandry together with light slanting across a kitchen floor.
How does something “die octoberish?”
I Hope You’re Happy – Marni Appleton
[The Indigo Press; 2025] Things sure have gotten weird, haven’t they? Younger generations, contextualized by the internet since birth, face the breakdown of their relationships to art. This breakdown reflects the jumbled, murky, often irretrievably frayed relationships they try to form with each other in a time when it’s difficult to identify the purpose of […]
Theory of Water – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
A timely meditation on relationality and worldbuilding, THEORY OF WATER explores what it means to live and learn alongside water.
The Accidentals – Guadalupe Nettel
These characters are all trying to not feel so alone, in a world that is at every turn isolating and disorienting. And of course they are—we all are.