Edie Richter is Not Alone – Rebecca Handler
There is the belief that a person needs to have hit rock bottom in order to recover, but only a talented author, like Rebecca Handler, can show us what that looks like in gritty, realistic and darkly hilarious detail.
Permanent Revolution – Gail Scott
Gail Scott envisions an active meaning, sentence, and subject-in-becoming that wrestles in continuous interplay with the wider ecology around it.
Full Stop Wins Whiting Literary Magazine Prize
We’re extremely excited to share that Full Stop is a 2021 recipient of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
This delight in difference is what black religion in the post-Trump still-neoliberal age, which is another way to say black religion in the age of Thomas Jefferson, in the age of racial capitalism, antiblack racism, and settler colonialism, needs to rediscover.
In an attempt to uncenter the human — and any center, for that matter — Field replaces hierarchy with an ecology.
PERSONHOOD suggests that Thalia Field’s audacious verbal imagination has started to become merely the available instrument for promulgating an increasingly familiar message.
“Surveillance and espionage are part of everyday lives now.”
In frank: sonnets, Seuss inextricably ties herself to her poetic voice, revealing childhood memories and adult indiscretions with fierce bluntness.
On Time and Water – Andri Snӕr Magnason
It is a deeply personal reckoning with individual and collective responsibility in a time of reckless consumption, and a rich tapestry of myth, memory, and wonder.
And that’s saintly, actually. It’s saintly to not want to work.