AT LONG LAST, the audacious meta-autofiction collaborative novel by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff gets the beautiful print edition it deserves. If you like literary puzzles and fragmentary narratives, it’s for you. SOLID Ϙ
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INTRIGUING SPACE ADVENTURE follows an unlikely team of counterintelligence agents to an encounter with a mysterious entity which reproduces through spores. Strong, engaging worldbuilding, great characterization. A MINUS
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A BREATHTAKING NOVEL FROM HAITI tells tales of life in Port-au-Prince’s brutal slums through the eyes of Cécé, a young woman making a living as a sex worker, and trying to make a different life as a social media influencer. A MINUS
https://archipelagobooks.org/book/cece/
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AN ERITREAN REFUGEE IN LONDON finds solace in her own anger, in wandering the city, in reading her late mother’s diary, especially in literature and transgressive sexuality. Beautifully erudite, shocking in its frankness. B PLUS
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SLEEK PARANORMAL NOIR is bluesy, queer, and unapologetically Black. Set in a magical city where detective summons the dead and angels, demons, vampires and ghosts rub shoulders with the living; richly engaging. B PLUS
https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-dead-withheld
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Publication date: June 30 2025. An 8” x 5” novella. Items ordered with a pre-ordered title will ship when the pre-order becomes available. Meet Dizzy Carter: private investigator/blues enthusiast/deadwalker witch. In this sapphic paranormal neo-noir, we follow her exploits in the neon-drenched des
ADVENTURE, HOMESICKNESS, AND CONFUSION swirl in the mind of an eight-year-old abducted by her father in this beautifully simple, intensely evocative tale of a fractured family in 1980s Italy. Perfect child’s voice, perspective. B PLUS
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Kidnapped by her troubled father, a young girl navigates life on a road trip across 1980s Italy in this stunning, cinematic English-language debut. One day in May 1980, 8-year-old Ilaria gets into her father’s car after school. As they stop at a series of highway hotels, traversing the north of...
MULTIVOCAL, KALEIDOSCOPIC TALE of environmental collapse, love and heartbreak, friendship and collective collaboration plays wonderful games with language, narrative form, and time. Gloriously queer, beautifully elegiac. B PLUS
https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/what-a-fish-looks-like-by-syr-hayati-beker/
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UNSPARINGLY CANDID, THOUGHTFUL memoir offers a kaleidoscopic look at the pain and soul-searching a writer experiences from her mother’s weaponized “silent treatment.” Multivocal, poetic narrative is powerfully on point. B PLUS
https://tinhouse.com/book/a-silent-treatment/
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SWEEPING YET DEEPLY INTIMATE novel from a Cameroonian writer and filmmaker depicts the complexities of life in a (fictional) African country shaped by generations of repressive rule. Stunning, thoughtful, heartbreaking. A MINUS
https://coffeehousepress.org/products/the-aquatics
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THE MANY MAGICS OF LOS ANGELES—its rich landscape, its diverse cultural histories, its complicated past and present—are at the heart of this lovely supernatural thriller, along with a prickly but appealing protagonist. B PLUS
https://redhen.org/book/city-of-smoke-and-sea/
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Queenie Rivers was raised by her grandparents in coastal Los Angeles. As she approaches thirty, her erratic lifestyle is forced back on course by a car accident and her grandmother’s intervention. But her recovery is interrupted by a break-in and Gran’s death. Gran’s last act was to set Queenie up with a job at an upscale
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