Excess—The Factory – Leslie Kaplan
Leslie Kaplan’s EXCESS—THE FACTORY has nine circles, but you don’t get to the bottom of it.
The Storyteller Essays – Walter Benjamin
Stories rely on their iterability, extant within a system of circulation, mobile and memorable.
Lok’s stories negotiate and transgress the limits of the nearly impossible.
In these new climate circumstances, old stories will not suffice when it comes to stirring us to action.
Our deepwater oil spills, our medical byproducts, our creeping drones, all the fruits of our ingenuity and cruelty, are what rip nature apart and rip us apart from nature.
Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and the Journeys in Between – Ed Pulford
Pulford’s persona in this book, like all other Englishmen interested in Russia, is Anthony Burgess manqué.
A nod to communism doesn’t make fashion political, it makes it nothing more than collage.
Mostly Dead Things – Kristen Arnett
What Arnett’s debut aspires to is the act of holding, tightly and gently all at once, to the mostly dead things, and not letting go.
My Mother Laughs – Chantal Akerman
Akerman’s “I” is more like an eye, a camera lens — it is what it sees, and what it sees itself doing.
Something Like Breathing – Angela Readman
The attraction of Angela Readman’s SOMETHING LIKE BREATHING is in the distance between two girls negotiating their youth, not necessarily involved, but proximate to and observant of each other.