5/5: “To us, basketball was a historical record of all the ways a body can move with and for another. What could be better than the strange and perverse pleasure of being known?” Thank you to NetGall...

5/5: Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC! This book will be published in the US on April 22, 2025 by Catapult. “I am no longer bewildered by my collapse but by all we have survived....

5/5: Full Rating: 4.5 stars rounded up “All I want to do is leave a little more room for what good people are left to do their feral blooming.” Sam Sax’s Yr Dead is a book that lingers, both in its ...

5/5: Full Rating: 4.5 stars rounded up Ling Ling Huang’s Natural Beauty is a hypnotic descent into the grotesque allure of the wellness industry, where the pursuit of perfection veers into horror. S...

5/5: “After all, what is the utility of 'sanity' or 'rationality, in a world in which ‘sanity' means the death of oppressed people and the planet, and 'rationality' means the logic of the market? In t...

5/5: Grief, like lichen, clings to the body long after the first wound has scabbed over. In Green Fuse Burning, Tiffany Morris carves open the quiet violence of survival — the gnawing hunger for conne...

5/5: Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC! This book will be published in the US by Simon and Schuster on July 15, 2025. “There were normal brains out there, and I didn’t have one, a...

5/5: Tender, intricate, and alive with possibility, Power to Yield and Other Stories by Bogi Takács is a luminous meditation on cognition, communication, and the radical multiplicities of being. Throu...

4/5: Some books don’t so much unfold as unravel—like a tangled thread tugged gently through grief, memory, and love until what’s left is soft, frayed, and quietly shimmering. That’s how And Then the G...

“I curl into myself and I touch the feral creature of my heart and ask ‘is there anything left...

5/5: Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC! This book will be released in the US on March 4th, 2025 by Tordotcom. Full Rating: 4.75 stars rounded up Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has R...

"We can skip the viral shaming and reputational warfare. We can skip the ideological litmus te...

“I think it all takes courage: falling in love, staying in love, leaving love that no longer s...

Vera Blossom’s How to Fuck Like a Girl is a memoir that doesn’t ask for permission. It’s messy...