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We're kicking off the new year with some exciting titles for our January Review Highlights. Below you'll find resolution-worthy reviews from Heavy Feather, Kirkus, LARB, and more. To view previous review highlights, click this link to check out our archives.




Gossip Girl Fanfic Novella by Charlie Markbreiter | Kenning Edition

"It’s political in the way that many teen dramas are, indexing the currents of American culture in the era of its creation: Here are the good rich, here are the evil rich, here are the not-as-rich, the used-to-be-rich. Charlie Markbreiter’s excellent new book, Gossip Girl Fan Novella, turns that indexing on its head, interrogating the mutually constitutive relationship between culture and consumer."   — Full-Stop Quarterly
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Book of the Cold by Antonio Gamoneda, Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Victor Rodriguez Núñez | World Poetry Books
"The poems in Gamoneda’s Book of the Cold can help us sense these intimations of something else, not another form of authority, but something other than ourselves; it can only be seen clearly in the darkness. But that does not mean this light is any less real.”
   —  Heavy Feather Review

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Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili | LittlePuss Press
"An almost perfect reflection of the fullness of a life marked by triumph — a narrative that necessitates, unfortunately, a whole lot of shit to triumph over."

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I Piped, That She Might Dance by Iain MacDonald | Blackwater Press
"I Piped, That She Might Dance follows the story of Angus MacKay of Raasay, a legendary piper and extraordinary exponent of Scottish music...a remarkable portrayal of a man whose talent left an indelible mark on Highland history and the piping world."
   — Scottish Field

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Suburban Death Project by Aimee Parkison | Unbound Edition Press
“Characters in this collection of grim short stories can’t escape death, isolation, and loneliness...Parkison aptly develops the multistory cast, which persistently engages regardless of characters’ quirks or atypical circumstances...Readers should savor these marvelous stories, as they are sadly over too soon.”
   — Kirkus Review

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