Radical Sacrifice – Terry Eagleton
The dust jacket claims that Radical Sacrifice “distils the essence of Eagleton’s later thought,” but at the outset it seems like that later thought is stuck in an era now long past.
I am not here specifically to defend Heti’s section breaks, jumping points, or digressions, though I may in parts do just that. What I am here to do is consider how the criticism of this book plays right into a larger story Heti is telling.
Ultra-Cabin – Kimberly Lambright
We might read holding the world in the back of our minds as a way of negotiating between what is promising and what can hurt us.
Selected Writings – Mirtha Dermisache
Think of this “book” as a primer that instructs us in nothing other than how to brilliantly rearrange loops, humps, and strokes.
A Working Woman – Elvira Navarro
A review must mostly just be a curved letter to the author.
It’s easy to forget that stories are rarely the work of any individual, but part of a collective process of telling and retelling — borrowing, alluding or stealing. There’s reason to be hopeful.
Millennials and the Moments that Made Us – Shaun Scott
[Shaun Scott] uses the book as an occasion to decenter and problematize the mainstream cultural idea of the American Millennial as any middle- or upper-class white twenty-something with a liberal arts degree trying to make it as, say, a voice of a generation.
Language, poetry, and the act of translation are, then, inherently communal acts because they all involve ways of knowing one’s self, sharing that self, and as a result, eliminating a sense of otherness among communities.
A Forest Almost – Liz Countryman // The Aleatory Abyss – Evelyn Hampton
The inability to believe in the future, a failure that we humans have made possible — we have exceeded ourselves, haha! — has created, not unhappiness, but ____________________.
Fish Soup – Margarita García Robayo
As she deftly mobilizes themes of mobility and immobility, García Robayo demonstrates not only how circumstances catch us with little promise of release but also how we get caught up in the idea of finding a way to escape.