Ethics, Aesthetics, Woolf Waves, Foxtrots: Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
From its striking, foxy cover to print layout and coloured illustrations, Anne Carson’s miscellany, Wrong Norma, is a beautiful book that reflects its aesthetics on every page.
Michael Greenstein
Coco Collins, Sorry About the Fire
Colleen Coco Collins features an alphabetical array in her debut collection of poetry: Sorry About the Fire, a singeing apologia of inventive sound and sensuousness.
The Blades of Wrath: Into the Continent by Emily McGiffin
Axe and rifle with bayonet: these two weapons form the inverted and reversed covers of Into the Continent, Emily McGiffin’s latest collection of poetry.
The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief: Steven Mayoff What Makes Samson Run?
Mayoff’s exuberant novel, The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief …
Lakdhas Wikkramasinha (Author), Aparna Halpé (Editor), Michael Ondaatje (Editor)
Lakdhas Wikkramasinha is one of the major Sri Lankan poets of the twentieth century.
Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin
Code Noir is a groundbreaking, dazzling debut fiction from one of Canada’s most exciting and admired writers, Canisia Lubrin.
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
Alphabetical Diaries is an enthralling work from one of our greatest literary innovators, shortlisted for the Giller and winner of the GG for Fiction.
Here is Still Here by Sivan Slapak
Sivan Slapak’s debut collection is an intimate and layered exploration of human connection and the complexities of identity. Told with compassion and wit, Here is Still Here is a poignant reminder that however far you may go, you remain yourself.
In Dante’s Footsteps: Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multifaceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories: the first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the form since her number one New York Times bestseller Unaccustomed Earth.
My Brother Was a Poet: Poems by Mark Bohnen
The poems in this collection are drawn from a black vinyl binder containing verses handwritten on lined loose-leaf paper. The binder has been virtually untouched since 1987 when the poet died at the age of 36.
Xanax Cowboy by Hannah Green
Breaching borders and breaking boundaries, Xanax Cowboy is as much a play (written and directed by Green) as a poem — a performance through acts and actions.
Untethered by Ruth Rakoff
Untethered provides context and insights into orthodoxy, post-war experience, mental illness, generational trauma, and grief while laying the foundations for understanding and a path toward healing.
Wonder-Work: Selected Sonnets of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
An unusual poet from the Baroque period meets 21st century poet-translators in this exceptional book.
Yara by Tamara Faith Berger
Set in the sex-tape-panicked early 2000s, Yara is a reverse cautionary tale about what the body can teach us.
There is No Blue by Martha Baillie
Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, her father’s life, and her sister’s suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time.
