Fiction after the event, where response, record and return give harm a usable form.

Fiction after the event, where response, record and return give harm a usable form.

Fiction after the event, where response, record and return give harm a usable form.

Fiction after the event, where response, record and return give harm a usable form.

Fiction after the event, where response, record and return give harm a usable form.

Fiction after the event, where response, record and return give harm a usable form.

A rehearsal room in 1988 Kingston becomes the site of an attack whose aftermath spreads through aliases, testimony, revenge and return.

A rehearsal room in 1988 Kingston becomes the site of an attack whose aftermath spreads through aliases, testimony, revenge and return.

Douglas Stuart inhabits inherited silence and desire, mapping place as pressure that shapes longing and identity.

Douglas Stuart inhabits inherited silence and desire, mapping place as pressure that shapes longing and identity.

A house's debt to the devil staged as inheritance, ending in a granddaughter who lives outside its doctrine.

A house's debt to the devil staged as inheritance, ending in a granddaughter who lives outside its doctrine.

A review of Foster: on care measured in manner not provision, a household's buried loss, and what the final word costs the child.

A review of Foster: on care measured in manner not provision, a household's buried loss, and what the final word costs the child.

A colleague's fear read as desire, alternating narration turning workplace access into administratively easy pursuit.

A colleague's fear read as desire, alternating narration turning workplace access into administratively easy pursuit.

Political injury reassigned as private failure, each record altered before it can testify, until only the safer account survives in print.

Political injury reassigned as private failure, each record altered before it can testify, until only the safer account survives in print.

Prison sentences spoken as university degrees, returning each political abstraction to the people required to live inside it.

Prison sentences spoken as university degrees, returning each political abstraction to the people required to live inside it.

An archaeologist's report passed off as ethnography, compiling a whole society out of one man's failure to tell people apart.

An archaeologist's report passed off as ethnography, compiling a whole society out of one man's failure to tell people apart.

A disgraced professor's self-knowledge restaged as evidence, ending in a shape borrowed from every story about men like him.

A disgraced professor's self-knowledge restaged as evidence, ending in a shape borrowed from every story about men like him.

A woman's murder narrated as folklore, exposing the contempt that made her killable long before anyone raised a knife.

A woman's murder narrated as folklore, exposing the contempt that made her killable long before anyone raised a knife.

Violence taken up as courtship in West Dublin, turning every order from a lover into a form of love.

Violence taken up as courtship in West Dublin, turning every order from a lover into a form of love.

A failed actor paid to sit in a leather bag, drawing more notice hidden than his face ever earned.

A failed actor paid to sit in a leather bag, drawing more notice hidden than his face ever earned.

A Canadian coming-of-age novel about masculinity, queer identity and secrecy on a military base.

A Canadian coming-of-age novel about masculinity, queer identity and secrecy on a military base.

The absence of objection becomes the operative signal

The absence of objection becomes the operative signal

Ana Paula Maia organises Of Cattle and Men inside a slaughter system where labour, appetite and waste share the same order.

A review of Courtney Bush’s Learning, a novella where preschool care, memory and crisis turn attention into structure.

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa: a review of how preservation replicates loss and withdrawal replaces resistance.

Justin Torres compresses memory and erasure into archival struggle, questioning preservation, authorship and the instability of narrative truth.

Queer fiction review: T.M. Delaney's The Lonely Road mistakes graphic trauma for literary grief. Asexual representation. ARC.

Queer fiction review: T.M. Delaney's The Lonely Road mistakes graphic trauma for literary grief. Asexual representation. ARC.

A possible sighting of the man who stalked her reorganises one woman's life around vigilance, repetition and misrecognition.

A possible sighting of the man who stalked her reorganises one woman's life around vigilance, repetition and misrecognition.

A father isolates his family in the mountains, where control holds and violence settles into place. Escape becomes possible, but not available.

A father isolates his family in the mountains, where control holds and violence settles into place. Escape becomes possible, but not available.

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.

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.

Measuring the cost of remaining alive when survival requires self-erasure.