Winter 2027 – Lindy – The Shadow of the object
Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt By Lindy Klompstra Do you recognise the feeling of remembering a conversation with someone, but not being sure if it was real or just a dream? Going up to them and asking about it feels embarrassing — because then they would know that you had a dream about them…
Winter 2027 – Laureen Hamon – An Uphill Battle (Without the Battle)
An Uphill Battle (Without the Battle) What if the mountain you try your whole life to climb is actually not worth climbing? By Laureen Hamon When I first saw that The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance was about 700 pages long, I was a little bit scared. I remember thinking, “What kind of…
Winter 2027 – Floor Wilhelm – The Spinster Cookbook
The Spinster Cookbook What if the mountain you try your whole life to climb is actually not worth climbing? By Floor Wilhelm I am not ashamed to admit that I judge books by their covers. The front cover of The Spinster Cookbook by Eli Davies features beautiful artwork by Libby Haines and says, “Culture, politics…
Winter 2027 – Anna-Lena Hoffmann – Said the Dead
“Have You Got Any Idea of What Kind of a Place This Is?” A Review of Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa By Anna-Lena Hoffmann In 1852, on a hill overlooking Cork’s River Lee, the Cork District Lunatic Asylum opened its doors. It was later renamed Cork Mental Hospital and, in its final decades,…
Winter 2027 – emma houdijk – Become a Tree or Die
Become a Tree or Die By Emma Houdijk “‘Father, help me! If your streams have heavenly power, change me! Destroy my beauty which has brought too much delight!’ Scarcely has she made this plea, when she feels a heavy numbness move across her limbs, her soft breasts are enclosed by slender bark, her hair turns…
Winter 2027 – Jip Soekhai – Yesteryear
The Misleading Reality of Yesteryear Why the Hype of the Summer Is Not Everything You Think It Is By Jip Soekhai Unless you lived under a rock for the past six months, you could not escape the book hype that is Yesteryear. Caro Claire Burke’s terrifying but fascinating debut novel became an instant bestseller and…
Winter 2027 – Bronté van der helm – Where are the kings
The Boy Who Borrowed Yeats By Bronté van der Helm ACT I: TIME THE DEVOURER If you look past Sliamh Felim’s rocky spine, along the winding countryside road and turn at Hogan’s Pass, you’ll find yourself on the narrow boreen to Knockagowny. Beyond the strings of mist emerges a slatted house that once sheltered cows…
Winter 2027 – Karolina Bojdol – My year in Paris with gertrude Stein
Getting to the “It” of It On the pleasures of (not) understanding Gertrude Stein By Karolina Bojdol A book about Gertrude Stein might reasonably be expected to begin with Gertrude Stein. Deborah Levy’s My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein (2026) begins instead with a missing cat. The cat, named “it” (a joke, one I think Stein would have appreciated),…
Winter 2027 – Thalea Mosbach – Almost Life
The Almost Life of the Lesbian Community By Thalea Mosbach What if the only thing you can give is blood? Support? The Blood Sisters did exactly that during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Lesbians lined up to give blood for their gay brothers, because gay men were forbidden from doing the same. Oftentimes abandoned…
Winter 2027 – Kelvin Anania – Japanese Gothic
An Apparition Called Self In Conversation with Japanese Gothic By Kelvin Anania Chapter 1 The ghost next to you in your coffin is the only thing keeping you company. No, calling it a coffin is putting it too kindly; the box is half the length of a standard coffin, so both your legs had to…
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