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Femoid by S. A. B. Marcie Femoid is a metamodern novel whose hybrid pastiche of styles reflects the fractured mindset of Gen Z and the pluralized toxicity they were born into. It embodies a new alternative archetype in literature, giving shape to an urgent ethos for a disoriented generation. i[ↄ]onic+ log by Federico Federici i[ↄ]onic+ log is an exploration of the edges of language, where meaning does not settle but oscillates—charged, dispersed, and reconfigured. Federico Federici constructs a shifting landscape of asemic writing, physics, and conceptual poetics, where each fragment resists closure and yet compels the reader to engage with the text as a field of forces rather than a linear argument. Through a meticulous interplay of textual layers, footnotes, and signification-endings, the work extends beyond the page, enacting a syntax of disruptions that invites “engagement with scientific signs not primarily as tools for problem-solving, algorithmic handling, or learning processes, but as an opportunity to observe them and set them in dialogue with self-made signs" (Nils Röller), where meaning is never given but continuously re-negotiated and "the sign is the enigma of language" (Michael Betancourt). For those drawn to the interplay of literature, semiotics, and experimental writing, i[ↄ]onic+ log is not just a book—it is a space to inhabit, question, and return to. The Voice in the Closet by Raymond Federman In occupied France, an adolescent boy, pushed into a closet as his family is taken by Nazi soldiers, accidentally escapes the death camps. As an adult, "Federman," at once the novelist himself and a literary character, wonders what it means to re-tell this experience, if it can be re-told, or if the reduction of one's story or life to a single moment isn't the greatest of all horrors. Since its initial publication in 1979, THE VOICE IN THE CLOSEThas been hailed as one of the great experiments of prose ficiton: a single sentence, concrete recit of wrenching emotional impact.