In order for a collection about identity to resonate, it must be a collection that lets everything in: Young seems to instinctively and lyrically know this… read more

Soft Science explores the intersections of identity, race, sexuality, and real/not-realness…. read more

The Blue Clerkfollows the narrative arc of a speaker/poet and an omniscient clerk…. read more

Far from being what they seem, the poems in this collection invite the reader to question what they think they mean; often, they beg for second, third, fourth readings…. read more

This beautifully rendered novel maps the epic rise to fame of Sofia Salvador, a samba singer, actress, and dancer… read more

The Terrible is the queer coming-of-age story of poet, model, and actor Yrsa Daley-Ward… read more

This novel showcases a true understanding of the current American political landscape, without being academic, inaccessible, or polemic… read more

Anne Raeff’s Winter Kept Us Warm is a profound success that manages to take its place in the canon of excellent war literature while also maintaining a kind of magical surreality…. read more

This collection is beautiful and harrowing and terribly vital. There’s nothing ordinary, nothing common about Moon’s writing, which holds a bright light to darkness and says, come forward.

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Once Elizabeth J. Colen lays an image down (and she lays images down one at a time, like celluloids or tracing paper), it’s impossible to un-see or un-know it. And—the most remarkable of all— the truths she constructs are far more nuanced and intuitive to the human condition…. read more