The island of Pigs is the locus of multiple abrading – one can almost hear them shifting and grating – layers of meaning.
The Unauthorized Biography of Ezra Maas – Daniel James
This is postmodernism on steroids.
Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader – Steve Abbott
One had to have an archivist’s obsessive streak to really get to the heart of Abbott’s oeuvre, and so for many years, those who had read bits of him here and there were deprived of really knowing his true genius.
Beyond Aesthetics – Wole Soyinka
Soyinka rails against the iconoclastic destruction of traditional African art and the careless treatment of its conventions.
Welcome to Hell World – Luke O’Neil
The take away from every essay is not merely that life is terrible, but that powerful people choose to make it so for their own ends.
CLEANNESS, at its core, is an examination of the sticky and inextricable pairing of masculinity and violence.
The Grave on the Wall – Brandon Shimoda
THE GRAVE ON THE WALL performs a memorial in linked essays to the author’s grandfather Midori Shimoda while scraping away at the grounds for such a memorial, for any memorial.
Kansastan, a hilarious novel, is perhaps even more surreal than Governor Brownback’s political credulity.
Ríos develops the dream as a genre to itself — a real fiction, a fictional real.
Space Invaders – Nona Fernández
Fernández does something vitally important here, something rare in American narratives of collective protest: she does not equate uncertainty with foolishness.