Biography of X is a dazzling literary chimera, at once an epic and chilling alternate history of the United States and an intimate portrait of a woman coming apart at the seams.
Through Penny’s eyes, we see the beauty in the seemingly broken, in the flawed stories we tell ourselves—and what happens when those stories delightfully shatter.
Esther Yi has set a new standard for internet-influenced literature with Y/N, one of the most daring novels of the year.
It is important to stay happy, to maintain daily reminders of goodness and wonder, and in this collection, Eileen Myles helps us do just that.
Wonder and joy are prevalent throughout Clint Smith’s Above Ground, with odes to his children’s quirks and the idiosyncrasies of child rearing, including first smiles and hiccups.
By employing two forms, the couplet and the prose poem, Maggie Millner suggests that within uncertainty, there is room for personal complexity.
In both English and Spanish, José Olivarez’s poems explore the sides of love that pop songs never could—the gritty, painful parts that everyone sweeps under the rug.
Charif Shanahan’s words are moving and muscular, with each line pulsating with wisely crafted feeling and thought.
One of Alejandro Varela’s many strengths is the way he uses humor to cut through all the static to get right at the heart of a character or situation.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah mashes up “Orange Is the New Black,” The Running Man, Gladiator and mixed martial arts into a brutal prognostication of what could be next year’s worst “reality” show.
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