In UXA.GOV, complicity has its price, and there is no such things as a passive observer.
Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir – Chase Joynt
A curious mix of reflection and commentary on male privilege and abuse . . . frame[d] . . . through the theories of Marshall McLuhan, someone who fascinates [Joynt] both as an academic and as a distant relative.
Saturnin wants his master to be an adventurer, but he doesn’t merely plan or dream: He acts on his fantasies, creating situations that force his master out of his banal existence and into the unexpected.
Fair to Look Upon – Mary Belle Freeley
Without Eve’s disobedience, there would have been no progress, advancement, or human intelligence, and for that, in Freeley’s view, Eve deserves “a profound salaam of admiration and respect” as “the first courageous, undaunted pioneer woman of the world.”
Roe v. Wade: Fifty Years After – ed. Rhae Lynn Barnes & Catherine Clinton
These essays demonstrate that Roe is about far more than the rights of individual states to legislate abortion.
Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry – Ryan Ruby
Market and technological forces are at the heart of Ruby’s analysis: How does poetry change in different social roles and contexts? How do different technologies and audience expectations shape poetry, and what happens when we think of poetry itself as a technology?
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?
Years and Years – Hwang Jungeun
Sejin and Yeongjin seem to be aware of the pitfalls of their mother’s refusal to speak of her past . . . but they ultimately do the same themselves. The three women take silence as a given, assuming that speaking would only lead to more harm.
Schrödinger’s Wife (And Other Possibilities) – Pippa Goldschmidt
Goldschmidt turns abstruse theories into metaphors of interpersonal relation, uncovering the hidden labor of scientific research and recovering the technical language of physics for humanistic consideration.
GALÁXIAS takes not only São Paulo, but the entire universe in its orbit.
The Degenerates – Raeden Richardson
Maha’s gift is born of grief, of the fear and pain that has defined her own life, and she too is a degenerate.
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.
Saturnin wants his master to be an adventurer, but he doesn’t merely plan or dream: He acts on his fantasies, creating situations that force his master out of his banal existence and into the unexpected.
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?