TEXT Reviews October 2026

G. S. Dickson reviews Liam Ferney’s Shark of Messina ; Thomas Moran reviews Andrew C. Wenaus and German Sierra’s Zipf Maneuvers: On Non Reprintable Materials ; Andrew Leggett reviews Carol Lefevre’s Bloomer ; Emily Davis reviews Jade Timms’s Golden ; Michelle Borzi reviews Andrew Sant’s Natural Wonders ; Fiadh Storm reviews Melissa Lucashenko’s Not Quite White in the Head: Personal Essays ; Christine Howe reviews Julia Prendergast and Rebekah Clarkson’s (eds) This is What it Feels Like ; Martin Villanueva reviews Toby Fitch’s Aussi/Or ; Tarla Kramer reviews Dominic Gordon’s Excitable Boy ; Kylie Evans reviews Christie Collins and Saul Lemerond’s (eds) Divergent Writers: Disability, Illness, Neurodivergence, and Ableism in Creative Writing ; Elizabeth Walton reviews Chloe Adams’s The Occupation ; Claire Watson reviews Elizabeth Walton’s How to Read a City/Your Place of Last Resort ; and Caitlin McGregor reviews Rachael Boast’s (ed) Versus Versus .