Noelle McManus is a writer-poet-linguist from Long Island, New York. Their work has appeared in Eclectica, Redivider, Vagabond City Press, and elsewhere. In addition to working as an editorial assistant at LIBER, they are a National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow.
EUROPA EDITIONS, MAY 2022, 224 PP. Fuyuko Irie is a thirty-four-year-old freelance proofreader from Japan. One of her most defining characteristics, in her opinion, is that she likes to go for a walk once a year on Christmas Eve, her birthday. “But I was sure that no one else
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX, FEBRUARY 2023, 128 PP. ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET’S 1974 film Successive Slidings of Pleasure starts with the protagonist tying her nude female lover to the bed frame to paint flowers over her nipples. The next we see of this lover, she is dead, stabbed in the breast with
GROVE ATLANTIC, NOVEMBER 2022, 672 PP. I’VE PREFACED FAR too many conversations lately with “I’ve just read Kafka’s diaries.” I actually read Kafka’s diaries about six months ago, but I can’t shake the feeling I’ve discovered something incredible. It’s silly, I know. Surprise, surprise: Kafka is good. But I’ve been
