This book came to me as a metaphorically dog-eared suggestion from my friend Eliot, and I'm so glad they suggested it; it's just the sort of book I love. In The Last Hour Between Worlds, the latest release from Melissa Caruso, the author…
The Atlantic—salt-bitten and memory-laden—beats beneath every clause of Cantoras, and Caro De Robertis (they/them) times their prose to that tidal metronome, letting sentences drift eastward onto Uruguay's raw ocean edge.…
I snagged Fatima Daas's The Last One because someone—I forget both where and who—mentioned it had won France's Prix de Flore. Look, I'll admit it, I'm a magpie for any book that makes the French literary crowd uncomfortable enough to shower it with accolades.…
Maggie Millner's Couplets is a novel-in-verse that explores the fierce intensity of falling in love and how it affects one's expression, especially when the initial excitement begins to falter and fail. This debut reads like a challenge to form itself…
The Archer moves with the methodical, recurring, and emotionally controlled intensity of mastered movement. In this debut novel, Shruti Swamy resists spectacle in favour of scrutiny—of the body, of memory, and of the hidden labour of becoming someone you were assured you couldn't be.…
