Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion, edited by Zeke Caligiuri et al., introduction by Eula Biss (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, November 14, 2023; 320 pp.; ISBN 9781566896955; $19.95 paperback). “The sea is the pitiless social darkness into…
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Human Communication Through Unspoken Words
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Last Language by Jennifer duBois (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, October 17, 2023; 240 pp.; ISBN 9781639551088; $26.00 hardcover). “Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.” —Susan Sontag, The Aesthetics of Silence (1967) In her fourth novel,…
A Tribute to Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar (San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, September 5, 2023; 256 pp.; ISBN 9781616963620; $17.95 print; $11.99 digital). “Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?”…
Exploring Technology and Humanity
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Stay This Day and Night with Me by Belén Gopegui, translated from Spanish by Mark Schafer (San Francisco: City Lights Books, March 21, 2023; 193 pp.; ISBN 9780872868939; $16.95 paper). First published in Spanish as Quédate este…
Identity, Mental Health, and Autofiction
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Hunger Heart by Karen Fastrup, translated from Danish by Marina Allemano (Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Book*hug Press, November 22, 2022, first English ed., Literature in Translation series; 272 pp.; trade paper, ISBN 9781771667722; $21.00 US, $25.00 CAD).…
A Nicaraguan Noir Trilogy
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Managua Trilogy By Sergio Ramírez: The Sky Weeps for Me, Volume 1, translated from Spanish by Leland H. Chambers; No One Weeps for Me Now, Volume 2, translated from Spanish by Daryl R. Hague; Dead Men Cast…
Decolonization in Tahiti
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Pina by Titaua Peu, translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, introduction by Rajiv Mohabir (Brooklyn, NY: Restless Books, August 16, 2022; 320 pp.; ISBN 978163206155; $18.00 paper; also available as ebook). First published as Pina…
A Collection of Denver Noir
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Denver Noir, edited by Cynthia Swanson (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, May 3, 2022; 288 pp.; $16.95 paperback; ISBN 9781636140292; also available in hardcover and ebook). “And there in the blue air I saw for the first…
Tales from the Pyrenees
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà, translated from the original Catalan version by Mara Faye Lethem (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, March 15, 2022; 216 pp.; $16.00 paperback; ISBN 9781644450802). Published as Canto jo i la…
An Eco-Dystopian Parable
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Milk Teeth by Helene Bukowski, translated from German by Jen Calleja (Los Angeles: Unnamed Press, September 21, 2021; 223 pp.; $26.00 hardback; ISBN 9781951213350). Originally published 2019 in German as Milchzähne by Blumenbar (an imprint of…
Exploring Grief and Space-Time
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Almond in the Apricot by Sara Goudarzi (Dallas: Deep Vellum Books, February 15, 2022; 252 pp.; $22.00 hardcover; also available as ebook; ISBN 9781646051090). “Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in the…
A Psychological Journey of Self-Discovery
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Vanished Collection by Pauline Baer de Perignon, translated by Natasha Lehrer (New York: New Vessel Press, January 11, 2022; 256 pp.; $17.95 paperback, $12.95 ebook; ISBN 9781939931986). “Every canvas is a journey all its own.”…