Catherine the Great and the Small – Olja Knežević
Knežević’s relentless chronicling of the ravages of heterosexuality and women’s centering of men invites us to read the novel as a quiet act of queer subversion in a hostile Eastern European climate.
“Rather like the eponymous sex act, Holeplay is arch, surprising, and spirited.”
Reverse Cowgirl – McKenzie Wark
For Wark, the realization of being trans begins with a need to not exist, which, in fact, masks a need to exist but otherwise.
The Superrationals – Stephanie LaCava
It is a novel about everything leading up to the shake-up, to the precise moment of becoming changed, of becoming unmoored.
The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey – Kaya Genç
Kaya Genç expresses his experiences through a literary art of political storytelling. The primary critical outcome of THE LION AND THE NIGHTINGALE is the essential need for freedom.
Andre Gide invites the reader’s doubt into the ability of the novelist (both himself and his narrator) to control the meaning of his novel.
Mutations – Gary J. Shipley and Devin Horan
For Shipley, it’s not a matter of opening our eyes, but of realizing that our body is made of many holes.
In the circumscribed orbit of the main characters, everyone is innately good, no one does anyone harm (violence is the preserve of faceless technology such as drones), and action is largely subordinate to a harmony of attractions.
The Distance – Ivan Vladislavić
His interest in the potential of the fragment as a form of fiction that bears witness to political truth, is ever yielding.
The Lion’s Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky – Susie Linfield
A complicated and well written polemic about the fractious way the Left has dealt with Israel.