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Walking Wheel is nostalgic - its frontier romanticism, and the tender love story at its center, offer a vision of a more robust, and more rooted, existence in the not very distant past.”
"'The Chorus of Home': Nostalgia, Remembrance, and the Forward Gaze in Molly Fisk’s Walking Wheel"
by Isaac Randel
April 7, 2026
"'These Things Should Not Be Underestimated': The Bizarre Quotidian in Nora Lange's Day Care"
“Investigating motherhood, desire, purpose, sex, and the ongoing challenge of sense-making, Lange embraces mess and complexity as she probes the contradictions inherent in the systems that define modern life…"


by Devyn Andrews
April 7, 2026
"Dare to Be Different: Bucking Literary Trends in Kerry Clare’s Definitely Thriving"
Definitely Thriving examines the overarching question of what happens when we allow ourselves the freedom of messy exploration.”


by Shirley Dees
March 17, 2026
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"This Open Queer Thing My Heart: Transcendent Poetics in Jake Rose’s Joan"
Joan is simply dazzling on the level of craft, particularly in its use of sound.”
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"“River means with Mother’s tongue tear”: Transformation and Possibility in Anna Nygren’s blush / river / fox
“Anna Nygren’s English-language debut, blush / river / fox, bewilders and blurs the boundaries between familiar and unfamiliar language, the human and animal, and the body and the world.”
by Claire Jussel
March 4, 2026
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