Halal If You Hear Me edited by Fatimah Asghar and Safia ElhilloĮdited by poets Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo, Halal If You Hear Me is an anthology of writing by women, queer, nonbinary, and trans Muslims, focusing on the intersection of blackness and brownness, the act of claiming space, and what it means to exist within an Islamophobic world.

Read an interview with Choi on The Margins. Set in a performing arts high school in the South in the 1980s, Susan Choi’s fifth novel Trust Exercise begins as the story of the blurry boundaries of youth, consent, and desire, and turns into a meta-narrative on the nature of truth in fiction. Soft Science‘s “conceptual heft, formal virtuosity, queer imagination, multi-dexterous approach to language, and tonal intricacy” make it one of the most celebrated collections released this year.

Koh writes of the collection, Arabilis is “a violent baptism, anointed grief… an incantation that rises from the dead, to claim what was lost and must be regained.” (Sundress Publications, March 14)įranny Choi’s highly anticipated latest collection explores the relationship between intimacy, technology, sisterhood, sex, and race. Leah Silvieus’s new collection move through faith, memory, and the family to talk about the fraught narratives of adoption, religion, and rural life. Look back into our bookmarks archives to add to your reading list. Here’s our latest as we launch into spring. Each month over the past two years, The Margins has shared a list of new books out by Asian diasporic writers.

Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu