Queering the border and other transgressions
“Who was there to answer to?” This is the question posed by one of two narrators in Bobuq Sayed’s novel No God But Us (Ultimo, 2026). It is a question also suggested by the novel’s humanist title and Sayed’s dedication “to the transgressors of borders”. In their first full-length fiction, Sayed dreams of a world where the borders are, if not erased, at least made more permeable, and we are no longer answerable to the enforcers of those arbitrary lines.
Not Even Past
Grace Yee writes that Joss: A History (Giramondo, 2025) was written with ‘a strong conviction that the past persists in the present.’ Through a porous interplay of past and present, Joss expands what poetry is and can be: collage, palimpsest, polyphony.
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