For around thirty-five years, the condition of my skin is something I have thought about and dealt with almost every day, so it inevitably has affected my perception of myself and likely how others see me, too.
Mourning is a recognition of change, and a processual reckoning with nostalgia; in Mourning a Breast, Xi Xi testifies to the tectonic labor of grieving, learning, renewing, reviving.
In Two Plays, Alekar’s sense of whimsy, bolstered by the translator’s ear for colloquialism, becomes an antidote to the intellectually stifling nature of the modern world.
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits – Ben Berman Ghan
Ghan weaves together technical jargon and strikingly erotic organic language to depict the cyborg post-human as it goes forth and multiplies.
How much weirdness is acceptable and what becomes gross or nauseating? What is the limit? I find it interesting for the body too. . . What’s the limit of grossing out a reader and having someone stay with a story?
The Weird Sister Collection: Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture
Each essay in the book reprises the site’s founding intention: to create the very space one desires and to invite others into dialogue while doing so.
The Avian Hourglass – Lindsey Drager
One could say that crisis compels us to look up, beyond ourselves. And birds allow us to delight in the altitude while staying rooted to the ground.
“This Generation’s Homer”: How Penguin Has Changed Marvel Comics
The word “classic” once had a very specific meaning, namely a text written in Greek and Latin during the era of antiquity.
If rapacious capitalism depends on fracking our attention and selling it back to us, practices of radical attention can help us to imagine alternative forms of social relations and selfhood, forms which moneyed interests claim are either naive or undesirable.
Our sense of genre has evolved so intensely that you can use them quite quickly to bring in other ideas or ideas that we might not expect from a detective story or an action scene. That disjuncture or that conflict can be interesting and comical.