Little Pink Book as Literary Fanfiction
Traditionally, Western concepts of originality in art are not equipped to consider whether creativity is possible under conditions of continual reproduction; it presupposes an authentic source of spontaneous genius.
Slow Guillotine – Teo Rivera-Dundas
We are drowning, choking, and sputtering on the saline logic of late capitalism: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.
The Home the Drowned – Elin Anna Labba
Since their words weren’t enough, the people of the village set up a protest camp
Letters to Kafka – Christina Estima
It’s a blaze of an affair, two intelligent people who deal with words
Traumatic Brain Novel: Debut Fiction from Esinam Bediako and Stacy Nathaniel Jackson
There’s a temptation, when we talk about illness and disability in fiction, to treat the body as either a tragic backstory or an inspirational obstacle course. These novels do something else.
My Dreadful Body – Egana Djabbarova
For Djabbarova, the body functions as a palimpsest of symbols
In this era of autocorrect, Lewis’s characters speak in typos
The Sleeping Land – Ella Alexander
Alexander reminds us that the human experience is bound to a rich history, and not just a matter of individual experience.
Natural History – Brandon Kilbourne
As much as natural history is a history of disappearances and extinctions, it is also a repository of evolutions and potentials.
The nose is not just cartilage and skin; it is inheritance, race, femininity, a mark of refusal, a repository of hatred and desire.