The Winter 2024-2025 issue of Wordgathering includes ten book reviews. The Spring 2025 special “book reviews supplement” will include an additional 11 book reviews and review essays. The following ten works are reviewed in the current issue:
- Imane Boukaila, Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes
- Amanda Cachia (ed.), Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation
- Zaji Cox, Plums for Months
- Jake Goldsmith, with illustrations by Wend Rend, In Hospital Environments: Essays on Illness and Philosophy
- torrin a. greathouse, DEED
- Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, LUNA
- Jill Khoury, earthwork
- Claudia Marseille, But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World
- Kelly Sargent, Echoes in My Eyes
- Ashley Shew, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Read a collaborative review written as a conversation between Court Ludwick and Romy Ewing in this issue of Wordgathering.
As Wordgathering has grown, the number of requests that we receive for book reviews has likewise grown. Writers who would like to review books for or have books reviewed by Wordgathering should send queries to wordgathering@syr.edu. Please refer to our Submission Guidelines for more information.
If you would like to become a potentially “frequent flyer” book reviewer for Wordgathering, thereby joining our (of course, accessible) reviewers’ “pool,” please reach out to us at wordgathering@syr.edu with a short summary of your areas of interest and expertise, a short statement of how you understand yourself and your writing to be in alignment with the journal’s goals, and a short bio, and we will be in touch with you as soon as possible. Thank you in advance for your interest and commitment.