by Blair Johnson

Fledgling – Octavia Butler

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Butler thus nimbly opens the seams of the vampire figure to show the ways in which its mythology is already lined with implications about the construction of race, exclusion, and intolerance.

Translation is a Mode=Translation is an Anti-Neocolonial Mode – Don Mee Choi

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The essay is a tightly woven crystallization of ideas that appear throughout Choi’s work, including linguistic nonequivalence and one’s sense of home under neocolonization.

The Bodies of Birds​ – Melanie Rae Thon

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It is difficult to describe the lyricism of THE BODIES OF BIRDS in any other way besides liquid metaphors: it swirls, it ripples, it eddies through its narrative waves.

Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham – ed. Laura Kuhn

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It is impossible to separate the work of the artists from the shared life of two men in love.

Minor Monuments – Ian Maleney

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Recording for Maleney is the fold in time that bends toward the unrecoverable past.