Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsApparitions by Margo Glantz
Originally published in the 1990s in Margo Glantz' native Mexico, her novel Apparitions is a heady, erotic exploration of the entanglement between sex, religion and art Read more »| 20 Jan 2026 -
Book ReviewsThe Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers
An affair mostly happens in a bored wife's mind in this interesting yet formally uninventive novel from Erin Somers Read more »| 12 Jan 2026 -
Book ReviewsJackson Alone by Jose Ando
Despite a compelling premise, Jose Ando's workplace mystery lacks the clarity needed to fully satisfy Read more »| 05 Jan 2026 -
Book ReviewsAll Consuming by Ruby Tandoh
Ruby Tandoh returns with All Consuming, an investigation into how taste is formed Read more »| 09 Dec 2025 -
Book ReviewsOpen Wide by Jessica Gross
Jessica Gross explores ideas of attachment and romantic infatuation in her smart and funny body horror-cum-romance novel Read more »| 09 Dec 2025 -
Book ReviewsTerry Dactyl by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's transcendental novel explores the twin crises of AIDS and COVID-19 as lenses through which to explore the queer experience Read more »| 04 Dec 2025
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Book ReviewsPalestine -1, ed. by Basma Ghalayini
In Comma Press's latest anthology, 12 writers imagine the year leading up to the Palestinian Nakba Read more »| 28 Nov 2025 -
Book ReviewsBad Language by So Mayer
So Mayer's manifesto-memoir Bad Language explores words as weapons of oppression and resistance Read more »| 12 Nov 2025 -
Book ReviewsIn Love With Love by Ella Risbridger
Ella Risbridger's warm and witty In Love With Love is an intimate and thought-provoking love letter to romance literature Read more »| 06 Nov 2025 -
Book ReviewsNoopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Anishinaabe author Leanne Betasamosake Simpson articulates the enduring spirit and colonial struggles through which their characters operate Read more »| 04 Nov 2025 -
Book ReviewsThe Wax Child by Olga Ravn
International Booker Prize-shortlisted author Olga Ravn returns with a new novel that's by turns delicate and visceral, pleasurable but disjointed Read more »| 03 Nov 2025 -
Book ReviewsThe Hajar Book of Rage, ed. Farhaana Arefin
The first in Hajar Press' new elements anthology series, this book takes as its subject the power and politics of fiery rage Read more »| 27 Oct 2025 -
Book ReviewsThe Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus
Expansive, self-reflective look at contemporary America from I Love Dick author Read more »| 07 Oct 2025 -
Book ReviewsLa Lucha ed. Carolina Orloff
Charco Press's latest is an incredible collection of essays destabilising traditions of Western feminism through transformative radical ideas Read more »| 07 Oct 2025 -
Book ReviewsMen in the Sun: And Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
A remarkable collection of short stories by Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani are brought together for the first time Read more »| 29 Sep 2025