This Blue Novel – Valerie Mejer Caso
The line “English is a language of water and good for recounting disasters” reads like meta-commentary about these translations.
It has been eleven months since I quit smoking cigarettes; eleven months and seven days. And I can honestly say I only think about smoking several times a day.
Living a Feminist Life – Sara Ahmed
This book is very kind because it teaches you to read between the white men, even if it’s chairs.
Visceral Poetics – Eleni Stecopoulos
In [Stecopoulos’] travels through health, “words, vocables, writing, and philological aura” exist as medical technology.
Bright Magic: Stories – Alfred Döblin
The variety of Döblin’s work may have hurt his chances at posterity, but it’s this same quality that makes BRIGHT MAGIC such a joy to read.
Disorderly Families – Arlette Farge & Michel Foucault
Farge and Foucault’s presentation of their findings in the Bastille archives provides a much-needed corrective to historians’ hitherto single-scale, unidirectional perspective.
Suite for Barbara Loden – Nathalie Léger
The subdued anguish of the book resonates out from this admission, which seems central to the way violence against women is constituted: we can come to see our own bodies as not worth defending.
Memoirs of a Polar Bear – Yoko Tawada
Tawada opens a space of human-polar bear empathy and solidarity — amusing yet deeply serious.
Violet Energy Ingots – Hoa Nguyen
VIOLET ENERGY INGOTS is a lesson in the poetics of disturbance.
The Mountains of Parnassus – Czeslaw Milosz
As Milosz himself notes in the introduction to the text, the form of the novel evades him; in The Mountains of Parnassus, he seeks a new form of novel.