Tonic and Balm – Stephanie Allen
The attempt to extract from history an elegiac redemption story may not entirely avoid superimposing a present idealization on the past.
When Rap Spoke Straight to God – Erica Dawson
[Erica Dawson] shows by example how to band together with the mothers and sisters whose voices get lost in patriarchy’s texts.
77 is a novel of terror.
Great Expectations – Kathy Acker
This contemporary return to Acker may be similar to how Acker herself returned to those who lived and wrote before her: as something unfinished.
Dark Constellations – Pola Oloixarac
In Oloixarac’s hands, this world is one in which the boundaries between humans, plants, and animals have already begun to dissolve.
Recording for Maleney is the fold in time that bends toward the unrecoverable past.
I Have Never Been Able to Sing – Alexis Almeida
At the conclusion of this litany of haves, have-nots and have-nevers, we are left with a better idea of what it means to be a self, a thing which is only partially apprehensible to the person occupying it.
The hypertext author is unavoidably confronting the role of order and form in fiction
Go Ahead In The Rain – Hanif Abdurraqib
Abdurraqib can tell better stories about music than sometimes the music can tell about itself.
Terra Nullius – Claire G. Coleman
It should come as no surprise that Coleman, an Australian Aboriginal author of the South Coast Noongar people, is particularly poised to enliven the tropes of the science fiction contact genre.