My Year of Rest and Relaxation
A year of pharmaceutical sleep staged as transformation, ending in confirmation that conscious life happens to other people.
Author
Editorial
Elena Knows
A mother crosses Buenos Aires after her daughter is found dead in a church belfry, certain that rain proves what the police refuse to see.
The South
A failing farm in southern Malaysia. A queer attraction formed across unequal access to exit. The South asks who can leave, and at what cost.
Women Without Men
A compressed feminist fable set around 1950s Iran, where women leave male authority and find freedom taking stranger, unfinished forms.
Handsome
A novel of marriage, memory and Alzheimer's narrated by a woman whose case against her husband survives her failing mind.
1984
Orwell builds dread out of objects, rooms and procedures. The final section explains what the first two hundred pages made you feel.
While The World Slept
A Nigerian short story collection about queer life, family pressure, religious judgement and the cost of being known.
Box Hill
A six-year BDSM relationship written as a study of unequal access: a flat without a key, a man without a surname, a death without a grave.
Explanation Under Pressure
An event occurs without becoming motive. Explanation is demanded, but the act remains without justification.
The Meursault Investigation
Kamel Daoud answers The Stranger by naming Musa, the Arab killed by Meursault, then traces the damage through grief, language and revenge.
The Land in Winter
During the winter of 1962–63, four people try to keep marriages, animals, patients and unborn children alive after the terms of their lives have begun to fail.
Country People
A warm, loose comedy of family, belief and Vermont eccentrics. Generously constructed, intermittently brilliant, and approximately one hundred pages too forgiving of itself.