Solidarity with Children – Madeline Lane-McKinley
Children do depend on adults, but dependence need not entail domination.
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.