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.
The idea that I would have to be silent about an experience that I had because it would make other people feel uncomfortable . . . just felt obscene at a certain point.
Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom – Grace Lavery
Lavery, as a queer theorist, resists and problematizes the sitcom’s implicit assumption of the automatic goodness of marriage and family ties.
Brutalities: A Love Story – Margo Steines
The narrative bite of Brutalities is generated by [its] juxtaposition: the magnetic charge between Steines’s longing for gentleness and her attraction to violence.