This narrative unmooring, while unconventional, strikes me as a byproduct of Jong’s departure from high-control religion
Now More Than Ever – Greta Schledorn
What Schledorn reveals isn’t a secret self but the impossibility of having one.
In the Realm of Motes – Baptiste Gaillard
Human witnesses are nowhere in this book
Silverman explains the ways the US’s richest people have moved to the political right
The vampire and the ex-rocker make a mournful pair: he with his ruined hands, she with her sad nocturnal life. He needs heroin; she needs blood. He has nothing left to live for; she hasn’t truly lived in centuries.
Because we are so close to Marta and her guilt, we see her holding onto anchors that are causing her to sink.
I Do Know Some Things – Richard Siken
The story of I DO KNOW SOME THINGS is palpable, welling at every edge with urgency
Apotheosis of Music – Witold Wirpsza
For Wirpsza, a fugue can be a person, notes can be nails that stick in one’s head, and God himself can play the piano of humankind
The High Heaven – Joshua Wheeler
The High Heaven strays far from southern New Mexico. And yet, part of its power derives from the ways in which the region remains present.
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers – Keetje Kuipers
For Kuipers, the body is the departure point for exploration