Reviewed by Katherine Connell Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House (Strange Light, 2019), 264 pp., $24.95. Carmen Maria Machadoâs In the Dream House is a hybrid memoir that combines the authorâs personal experience of queer domestic abuse with reflections on genre, literature, film, and...
Reviewed by Ben Rawluk Matthew Walsh, These are not the potatoes of my youth (Goose Lane, 2019), 92 pp., $19.95. I donât want to have to use the word liminal, but all the spaces in Matthew Walshâs debut poetry collection These are not the potatoes of my youth are absolutely liminal. Walsh is a...
Reviewed by Emilia Nielsen Lucas Crawford, The High Line Scavenger Hunt (University of Calgary Press, 2018), 144 pp., $18.99. Lucas Crawfordâs second collection of poetry, The High Line Scavenger Hunt, undertakes to both chronicle and engage with New York Cityâs High Line, a reclaimed elevated...
Reviewed by Tanya Marquardt Larissa Lai, The Tiger Flu (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018), 334 pp., $19.95. Winner of the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, Larissa Laiâs novel The Tiger Flu invites us into a lyrical world that melds seamlessly with her rendering of place, telling a...
Reviewed by Asam Ahmad Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Mariner, 2018), 280 pp., $16. Near the end of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee writes: âThe story of your life, described, will not describe how you came to think about your life or yourself, nor...
Reviewed by Matthew Walsh Hasan Namir, War/Torn (Book*hug Press, 2019), 114 pp., $18. Hasan Namir, celebrated author of the novel, God in Pink (winner of the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction), is back on the literary scene with his essential debut book of poetry, War/Torn, published by...
