Picture by Demianastur / Adobe Inventory The surplus of capitalism is the backdrop in Rosalie Moffett’s Making a Residing (Milkweed, 2025), and on the foreground: motherhood, debt, forest fires, and a speaker who’s deep down like everybody “obsessive about dreaming / up the long run, with hell, with all / that spares us.” All through Moffett’s third […]

All stills from The Hedgehog (2024). Images courtesy of Zheng Zhi. The author Zheng Zhi’s first novel, Floating, was printed in China in 2007, when he was nineteen years outdated. Since then, he has printed three extra—a fifth will come out this yr—in addition to quite a few volumes of quick fiction, all whereas writing […]

Illustrations by Cuauhtémoc Wetzka / Courtesy of Stressed Books Lamentations of Nezahualcóyotl: Nahuatl Poems (Stressed Books, 2025), by Ilan Stavans, is a set of poems that seize, from authentic Nahuatl songs, the voice of Aztec warrior, king, poet, and thinker Nezahualcóyotl, who lived half a century earlier than the arrival of the Spanish. The next is a […]