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“…the author asks us to reckon with how we're already looking at the genocidal tragedy, and similarly, what that looking costs.”
““Built on a series of vignettes, Ninan relies on quick, impactful moments to show how meaningful simplicity can be.”
by Sam Bryant
September 17, 2026
“Sue’s obsession with the house pressurizes her already intense lifestyle, pushing directly on a schism between the liberal values that she claims to hold and her devotion to materialism in her upper-middle class life.”
by Michael Harper
September 15, 2026
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"With direct and lucid prose, Metzger['s]…expressions of palpable desire illustrate that loss does not smother longing but amplifies it, an effect laid onto the reader through a preponderance of images, moments, and missed turns in the past.”
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“At times the speaker’s proximity to loss is suffocating; at others, speakers evince an even greater discomfort from a sense of cosmic loneliness.”
by Isaac Randel
September 1, 2026
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September 16, 2026
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