Love Me Tender – Constance Debré
Love Me Tender channels the performative masculinity of Paul B. Preciado’s Testo Junkie and the restless thirst of Jane DeLynn’s lesbian cruising novel Don Juan in the Village. In other words, Love Me Tender is hot.
The Bulgarian Psychiatrist – Thomas McGonigle
The murderous logic and hypocrisy of communist rule in Bulgaria . . . serves as a haunting backdrop to this dense and caustic piece of fiction that treads along unsettling nihilist pathways.
Welcome to a dysfunctional society!
stemmy things – imogen xtian smith
Pleasure triumphs over production. stemmy things lives up to this axiom, hitting the reader with a sticky frankness that elicits both surprise and gratitude.
Metabolics – Jessica E. Johnson
Johnson’s diagrams not only play with her background and love for biology but manage to capture the experiences of motherhood and a mother’s body that cannot be expressed with words.
1,000 Coils of Fear – Olivia Wenzel
The tapestry of voices and episodes in 1,000 Coils of Fear are at home in the beauty and horror of their contradictions, a moving testimony to the power of ambivalence.
Harry Smith: American Magus – ed. Paola Igliori
Maybe he was just in a lot of pain. Maybe he just wanted to fly away—one interpretation of his paper airplane collection.
Independent journalism is as essential as the public utilities that many of us take for granted. Local news is the first draft of a people’s history.
States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic – Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris
The isolation, the fear, the breaking of actual communication, and the lack of touch draws together Camus’s worlds and our reality.
The Bad Angel Brothers – Paul Theroux
In short, no fun, the having of a brother.