Oneiromancy by Winétt de Rokha, Translated by Jessica Sequeira Smokestack Books, November 2019 / Amazon “I went writing your name on leaves of Amaranth,” begins “Language Without Words” from…
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Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields by Penelope Rosemont City Lights Publishers, November 2019 206 pages / Amazon / City Lights 1.) Dancin’ in the Streets I’ve spent the better…
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Empty Words by Mario Levrero Translated by Annie McDermott Coffee House Press, May 2019 152 pages / Amazon I. The Uruguayan author Mario Levrero died in 2014, leaving behind…
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Since When by Bill Berkson Coffee House Press, November 2018 256 pages / Amazon “Dress Trope” Critics should wear white jackets like lab technicians; curators, zoo keepers’ caps; and…
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Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis Catapult Press, February 2019 224 pages / Amazon Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis captures the quiet slowness of adolescence. This is Aridjis’s third novel,…
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ReviewA Language That Heals as Much as it Separates: The novels of Sheila Heti, Erica Jong and Joanna Walsh
Break.up by Joanna Walsh Semiotext(e)/MIT Press, April 2018 272 pages / MIT Press / Amazon Motherhood by Sheila Heti Henry Holt and Co., May 2018 304 pages / Amazon 1. Motherhood…
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Mirtha Dermisache: Selected Writings by Mirtha Dermisache Edited by Daniel Owen, Lisa Pearson Ugly Duckling Presse, March 2018 128 pages / Ugly Ducking Presse / Amazon Mirtha Dermisache was…
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Lacking Character by Curtis White Melville House, March 2018 176 pages / Amazon, Melville House Curtis White is a master of the digressive, philosophical novel. His new work Lacking…
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So Much Blue by Percival Everett Graywolf Press, June 2017 256 pages / Graywolf Press, Amazon So Much Blue by Percival Everett, is a novel in a clear-eyed modern…
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Bunk by Kevin Young Graywolf Press, November 2017 576 pages / Amazon, Graywolf I. Bunk the new collection by Kevin Young traces some of the best of American hoaxes,…
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Infinite Ground by Martin MacInnes Melville House, Oct 2017 272 pages – Amazon Infinite Ground by Martin MacInnes, deploys a modernist mystery against a setting of 21st corporatism…
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Special Envoy by Jean Echenoz The New Press, October 2017 256 Pages / The New Press, Amazon Jean Echenoz has been writing satires since the 1980s. He’s a winner…
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Season of Crimson Blossoms by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim Cassava Republic Press, 2017 Amazon In Season of Crimson Blossoms by the Northern Nigerian writer Abubakar Adam Ibrahim an older woman falls in…
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The New Babel by Leonard Schwartz The University of Arkansas Press, 2016 190 pages – University of Arkansas Press / Amazon For many years Leonard Schwartz has produced…
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