Malak Mattar, My Mother (detail), 2021, oil on canvas
This 2024 bonanza descends from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Belize, and El Salvador. “There is a reclamation of identity that takes readers beyond the U.S.–Mexico border. . . . "
An efflorescence from 2023. “Nimble, protean, an adoptee has an awareness and creativity that converse with constellations, dimensions, manifold possibilities unbound by known origins and sources.”
A 2021 collection in search of multiform tomorrows. Translation, the editors assert, “arises from a [process] that requires breaking language and approaching its shards with astonishment and humility.”
A 2010 gathering from below the Sahara. “What these stories seem to announce is a powerful narrative outlook that has almost nothing to do with the West’s expectation of ‘Africanness.’”
A 2006 snapshot of new work “indicative of trends in Britain and Ireland: a lively breadth of language, and a seriousness that eschews pretension.” Alice Oswald, Simon Armitage, & other AGNI debuts.