Beyond the Periphery of the Skin – Silvia Federici
Silvia Federici’s BEYOND THE PERIPHERY OF THE SKIN is a baffling work that slides from the academically indefensible to the ethically dubious with remarkable facility.
Lethal Theater – Susannah Nevison
An exploration of capital punishment and the prison system in America, how incarceration is turned into a spectacle at the expense of the humans who are trying to make that of that system a grim home.
You Darling Thing – Monica Ferrell
As I reread the poems in Ferrell’s YOU DARLING THING in this unprecedented moment, I see her lines anew, perhaps as they have always been
MINOR DETAIL itself is an act of subversion because it represents history told on Palestinian terms, through a Palestinian voice.
OLDER BROTHER itself attests to grief’s power as a catalyst for creativity.
The poet is someone who facilitates the articulation of dissent.
Machines In The Head – Anna Kavan
Her stories feel prescient today; they capture the madness and degradation of isolation and living in a ravaged world.
Szabo’s ABIGAIL is a moral — though not moralizing — book.
The Dominant Animal – Kathryn Scanlan
We are all the more at the mercy of writers like Scanlan who provide new ways of seeing what has already been seen.
Lake Like a Mirror – Ho Sok Fong
The business of dehumanizing people and pushing them off the part of the earth that can be shared with other humans, is mostly the pretty mundane.