Who’s Afraid of Ottessa Moshfegh?
Review // by Lucia Senesi Ottessa Moshfegh’s latest novel, Lapvona, is an allegorical tale of power dynamics and…
Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones
For Chloé Cooper Jones, author of the memoir Easy Beauty, life is an endless experience of being studied by others. Peers debate the value of her life, strangers stop and stare, and doctors announced that she will never have a normal life.
Maafa by Harmony Holiday
"Hives become hidden, and we feel the sensation of endlessly tumbling through language, through its aural folds, its dimensional chronologies, and its perpetual limitations."
Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays by Steve Fellner
"Episodic yet easy on the eyes, Eating Lightbulbs could as easily be consumed slowly, steadily, and over a longer period of time as it could be read in one fell swoop . . . but perhaps that depends on one’s appetite for broken glass."
The Boy with a Bird in His Chest by Emme Lund
"Protagonist Owen grows up hiding the most intimate, tender, and evolved relationship of his young life under his T-shirts: a talking java finch named Gail."
Paradise Block by Alice Ash
Ash’s stories begin as the Grenfell news story did: with a fire.
Magnolia Canopy Otherworld by Erin Carlyle
In Magnolia Canopy Otherworld, the debut collection from Erin Carlyle, this biblical origin story is both confirmed and upended.
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia by Kiki Petrasino
If you are Black and American, then you too might have a story similar to mine. A story whose blood origin begins with more questions than documented truth.
Searching for Symmetry: Ramifications by Daniel Saldaña París
In a house on a street in Colonia Educación in Mexico City on a Tuesday around midday, a mother makes the decision to leave her husband and children and never return, an action that leaves a distinct mark on the family members’ lives, like the crease left on a folded piece of origami paper.
Echoes of The Three Marias in the #MeToo Movement
By delving into historic literature, readers and writers can gain a deeper understanding of current day issues and subjects, important in providing invaluable background and context, along with a wider perspective to inform current opinion and work.
Some Days Are Better Than Ours: A Collection of Tragedies by Barbara Byar
Barbara Byar’s collection, Some Days Are Better Than Ours: A Collection of Tragedies, rages against normality, a feat that hits close to home in the COVID-19 era.
An Archipelago of Truths: The Island Dwellers by Jen Silverman
In intimate, first-person narration, The Island Dwellers reads like a series of private letters addressed to our hidden selves.