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Kaliane Bradley recommends books that grapple with the chimera that is the experienced and imagined Britain
“River, Love,” flash fiction by CB Anderson
When he quit drinking, Michael Deagler was disappointed to find a lack of novels about recovery, so he wrote one
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Ellen van Neerven's "Personal Score" is a kaleidoscopic essay collection that explores the intersections between soccer, colonization, gender, race, and environmental crises
These generation-spanning sagas examine the ways our ancestral history haunts us
“A Brief, Inevitable Exchange” by Billy Chew, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
Amy Key recommends books from across the world about solitude and its pleasures, desires and conflicts
Nella Larsen’s “Passing” asks us to sit with the anxieties of motherhood
The author talked about her mythic triptych, rethinking the novel form as a quilt, writing about climate justice, and queer futurity
Characters experiencing geographical and emotional displacement who redefine their relationships, and themselves, on new grounds
I tell Mom that if I die first, I will wait for her. My mother tells me she will do the same.