Electric Literature
Review of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency by Chen Chen: embracing queer anger as a source of knowledge.
New York Times
In The Rupture Tense Jenny Xie looks at silence surrounding the Cultural Revolution and explores its lasting impact on her own family.
TIME
Joy Harjo and George Saunders’ latest included in the 12 New Books You Should Read in October.
New York Times
Review of Jorie Graham’s [To] The Last [Be] Human: An eco-conscious poet whose real subject is consciousness itself.
Poetry Question
Review of Sun Yung Shin’s The Wet Hex: “The Wet Hex is, at its core, a fractured narrative of becoming.”
Shondaland
Stunning review for Lidia Yuknavitch’s Thrust: “One of the most ambitious dystopian novels to hit shelves this year.”
Washington Post
Lidia Yuknavitch’s dreamy new novel Thrust delivers a mind-blowing critique of America’s ideals.
San Francisco Chronicle
Review of Vanessa Hua’s Forbidden City, a new classic about China’s Cultural Revolution and a girl caught in it
People
Amy Bloom sits down to share her journey after her husband, Brian, chose to die by assisted suicide.
LA Review of Books
Review of Percival Everett‘s The Trees: “an indictment of America’s racial terrorism masquerading as police procedural and slapstick comedy.”