by Ryan Chang

Against Safe Sex: A Review of Kathleen J. Woods’s White Wedding

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To ask whether the pornographic narrative style does anything (and to value it accordingly) is to buy into the promises of virtuous consumption. It is to believe that consuming a book somehow transforms aesthetic experience into social action.

The Beautiful Bureaucrat – Helen Phillips

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The Beautiful Bureaucrat revels in its playful and dark take on contemporary life, and yet never loses sight of its commitment to the brazen, and perhaps stupid, curiosity of the human.