We the Parasites – A.V. Marraccini
Another type of critic might submit to art’s powers of possession, the battle to best or be bested by the work, its expression, the puncture that collapses the artist’s time with the viewer’s . . . The critic can help other viewers see the world from within an artwork’s viscera, the history-culture-language that sustains it.
For any seducer, whether it is Prince or a more proximate old flame, withholding is the grammar.
Lim’s novel promises the disorientation of a house of mirrors.
“Rather like the eponymous sex act, Holeplay is arch, surprising, and spirited.”