Hot News This Week
January 25, 2024
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| | The Singularity
by Balsam Karam, trans. Saskia Vogel
Feminist Press • January 2024 • 9781558611931
“Haunting and unforgettable . . . a gut-wrenching look at immigration and loss.” — Nikita Imafidon, Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS)
“A stunning diptych, zooming outwards from the end to go back to the beginning.” — Bex Frankeberger, Books Are Magic (Brooklyn, NY)
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| Read These Next: Acclaimed Works from Kaveh Akbar
Author Kaveh Akbar was profiled in the New York Times on Saturday for his debut novel from Knopf, and the piece discusses his new and previous works from Consortium publishers Alice James Books and Sarabande Books. “Much of his work explores addiction,” writes reporter Elizabeth A. Harris, “including his first book of poems, Calling a Wolf a Wolf; a poetry anthology he edited with Lewis, Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance; and now, Martyr!”
The NYT piece online includes audio of Akbar reading a poem from Calling a Wolf a Wolf, his award-winning debut collection. Another Last Call, co-edited with poet Paige Lewis and published in October, features poems on addiction from major poets like Joy Harjo, Sharon Olds, Jericho Brown, Ada Limón, and Ocean Vuong.
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★ “Throughout, like the scraps of old tales, characters’ motivations flicker in and out of view, making the true magic of these stories the simultaneous predictability and unknowability of the people and creatures at their centers.” — Shelf Awareness
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| | Theophanies
by Sarah Ghazal Ali
Alice James Books • January 2024 • 9781949944587
“Sarah Ghazal Ali presents a stirring examination of faith, womanhood, and cultural inheritance through lyric poems that reimagine female figures and stories from the Islamic tradition. . . . Theophanies marks the emergence of a commanding poetic talent.” — Los Angeles Review of Books
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“The Canadian author Jarman may not be a familiar name in the United States just yet, but this anthology aims to fix that. The book gathers a selection of his stories, published over the course of his four-decade career, introducing his lush, searing, impressionistic tales to new readers.” — New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
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“These stories are populated by isolated characters who exist in crumbling worlds sometimes governed by the logic of dreams.” — New Yorker
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