Car Park Life – Gareth E. Rees
The account of people claiming public space, although these car parks may be far from the standard health and safety regulations, starts to sound heroic in a country where most land is owned by the landed gentry and public spaces and buildings are continuously being marked for “development.”
Edie on the Green Screen – Beth Lisick
Reading Lisick’s books today suggests that, as all politics are local, the global web hysteria that destroyed American politics as we know it also began locally.
The Temple of Silence – Justin Duerr
“Wiggle much?” Probably not as much as I should.
SAVAGE GODS is a reluctant book, an aporia of sorts, and is often miserable in its struggle against itself.
Neither Maso nor her characters are afraid to transgress presumed boundaries.
Intrusive Beauty – Joseph J. Capista
Capista’s poetry may overlap with those of earlier domestic male poets, they are freed from any implied gendered notions or assignations, notably signaling an ideological departure from Western male hegemony.
Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury – Sigrid Nunez
A beloved pet serves as a singularly appropriate subject through which a story of change — epochal, mundane, or otherwise — can be told.
EXTRATRANSMISSION – Andrea Abi-Karam
A poetry of directness, for Abi-Karam, means naming the violence, the rage, and the pain that is too often formally disguised.
Beyond Education – Eli Meyerhoff
We must be mindful not to understate the submerged radical potential of the democratic educational ideal.
Serotonin – Michel Houellebecq
Houellebecq’s aloof intensity remains paradoxical, provocative, and singular.