Early on in Tender Machines, her delicate, finely-boned, and yet fiery new poetry collection, J. Mae Barizo writes, “See how my desire thrives? / Feeding on every living thing.”  Just out from…

In the opening lines of Madelaine Lucas’ debut novel, Thirst for Salt, an unnamed protagonist finds herself unusually tethered to memories of a former lover—Jude—when she stumbles across his photograph in an…

In Max Porter’s Shy, the titular teenage protagonist has escaped from Last Chance, a “shite old mansion” converted into a school for “very disturbed young men.” A chorus of voices from Shy’s…