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Tag: US

Review: Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral

These are brutal, bruised poems, like desert storms, lit with lightning strokes of beauty.

LGBTIQ, Mexico, Migrants, Poetry, queer, US

Review: Real Life by Brandon Taylor

An aching novel of a young man trying to find a place in the world.

America, Fiction, gay, Man Booker prize, Novel, US

Review: Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

What would happen if a married woman behaved like a man? Fleishman Is In Trouble provides the answer.

Fiction, Marriage, New York, Novel, US

Review: The Tradition by Jericho Brown

The tradition is violation: of the land, of women, and especially black men’s bodies.

Contemporary, Poetry, Pulitzer, queer, US

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