This novel is a miraculous feat: a novel that denounces injustice, advocates for the elderly and the ill, and clearly advocates for access to abortion, without giving up style or literary verve.
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell – Brian Evenson
Evenson’s fiction reads cumulatively like satire on endemic human weaknesses that at last have provoked a supernatural break with a reality no longer able to contain them.
The longer you stare into skateboarding the less choice you have but to embrace a broader definition of the term.
Cozarinsky’s latest book Milongas is rooted — or, in this case, afloat — in gossip.
PERMAFROST isn’t the conventional, happily-ever-after fairytale-esque story . . . Baltasar shows that although life may be grim and cruel, one must carry on and entrust that there is a glimmer of hope to be found somewhere.
Squid Game: All You Need Is Death
Because you’ve already devoured Netflix’s limited series Squid Game, you know that it’s a metaphor of objet petit a, specifically under the Lacanian theory of desire.
Sometimes I stop typing and listen. I keep quiet and I listen. And they talk; I hear them.
Throughout HONEY MINE, the path to embodiment is, always, having sex with women. There is no other course, and who would want there to be?
As in her prior novels, Ducornet presents us with another world of radiant surrealism, only now she goes into outer space with a novel that works as a throwback to the pulp space operas.
Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer (Part 2)
When you anthropomorphize, you give human traits to simplify complex beings out of a laziness of not fully understanding them.