Readers of THE MASOCHIST in translation may be less aware of Perat’s poetic prose, but few are likely to experience this as something that undermines the cogency of Nadezhda Moser’s voice.
This Could Have Been Ramayan Chamar’s Tale – Subimal Misra
As Subimal Misra’s fiction demonstrates, there can be no definitive answer to the question of what makes a novel a novel — only as many possibilities as we imagine.
Zigzags is a nod to the persistence of queer joy, a radical thing in and of itself.
Scorpionfish – Natalie Bakopoulos
SCORPIONFISH invites us to hold Bakopoulos’s stare as she peels the layers off Greek society through her characters, but never because of them.
A History of My Brief Body – Billy-Ray Belcourt
From a native queer experience, Belcourt extends what it means to live in a state, to surpass the body’s defined frame, and to practice emoting as transcendence.
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.