Hymn to Moray Eels – Mireille Best
Why love a boy just on the basis of his boy-ness?
This narrative unmooring, while unconventional, strikes me as a byproduct of Jong’s departure from high-control religion
After David – Catherine Texier
“In the long wake of her twenty-two year marriage to David, Eve—a sixty-two-year-old writer and French expatriate residing in New York City—takes up online dating.”
The book is organized around the person of Sinno’s stepfather. She renders his presence and domination as suffocating. I shudder to acknowledge: that is not a metaphor.
Shelby Hinte’s debut novel HOWLING WOMEN investigates curiosity over blame, looking at the story beneath action.
Making Love with the Land – Joshua Whitehead
MAKING LOVE WITH THE LAND is a revelation of the many forms queerness can take, an expansion, a celebration of an ever-widening canon.
The Propagandist – Cécile Desprairies
Desprairies challenges the reader to inhabit a morally fraught protagonist. Why would someone collaborate with Nazis, the novel asks. Who would do such a thing?
Low: Notes on Art and Trash – Jaydra Johnson
Most of our social processes involving trash are designed to remove it from consciousness: out of sight, out of mind. Johnson’s goal is the opposite. She aims to spur a renewed awareness of trash.
Search Histories – Caitlin Farrugia
SEARCH HISTORIES . . . uses the form of Google searches to explore the contours of the human experience.
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.