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Covers of I Confess by Eric Schmaltz (left, beige cover with line drawing of what looks like brain rhythms) and Revolutions by Hajer Mirwali (light cream cover with a red circle fileld with concentric cream circles, and black circles hapharzardly layered around the red).

Truth and Dare: Eric Schmaltz’s I Confess and Hajer Mirwali’s Revolutions

June 8, 2026June 7, 2026 by Samantha Annie Bernstein

Eric Schmaltz’s I Confess (Coach House, 2025) and Hajer Mirwali’s Revolutions (Talonbooks, 2025), offer the promise of revelation and the certainty of obfuscation, probing the ways that language simultaneously creates and elides truth.