Reviews

The Use of Photography – Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie

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Writing and photography together . . . become a way . . . to gesture at absence, to make clearer the shape of what is missing in order to more fully read the photograph.

Feminism in Revolt: Carla Lonzi – ed. Luisa Lorenza Corna and Jamila M. H. Mascat

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Ultimately, we live domination in our everyday lives, even in the relationships where we are supposed to be most cherished.

If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose – Refaat Alareer

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An indispensable living document of a people’s fight against annihilation and a thesis statement on what makes us human.

Alternative Facts – Emily Greenberg

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Greenberg depicts these figures with sympathy, at times poignancy, yet never with forgiveness.

Nevermore – Cécile Wajsbrot

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NEVERMORE takes me closer than any other novel I have read to the exacting work of translation.

At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets – ed. by Antoine Caro, Edwin Frank, and Donatien Grau

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[It’s a] privilege to witness such a wide variety of minds going at it, appreciating, remembering, confronting, excoriating an entire universe of art, from the canvases of Degas and Watteau to the Akkadian-carved basalt stele of Hammurabi.

Making Love with the Land – Joshua Whitehead

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MAKING LOVE WITH THE LAND is a revelation of the many forms queerness can take, an expansion, a celebration of an ever-widening canon.

Mothballs – Sole Otero

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A unique specimen of story and art that revisits the “personal is political” slogan of second wave feminism, while drawing attention to the intimate or personal aspects of living with the consequences of oppressive religion and patriarchy.

Spatriati – Mario Desiati

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The only good thing about living in the margins is finding others that have been cast there, too.

Wrong Heaven Again – Ryan Eckes

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The strange to-do list form makes strange these actions that become objects, the labors that become products.