Desire expands, complicates (to staples, to other women) when you fuck with clichés.
The Fall of Language in the Age of English – Minae Mizumura
The kids don’t read enough, but even if they do, they don’t read the good stuff.
I, Bartleby – Meredith Quartermain
I, Bartleby is reluctant to provide those markers we most associate with “short stories.”
First Year Healthy – Michael DeForge
An imaginative take on the difficult project of reintegrating into mainstream society after a mental health crisis that diagnoses our social and cultural systems as incapable of caring for others.
The Utopia of Rules – David Graeber
This book of essays stands out less for the questions it asks, than for the assumptions that it refuses to question.
The Foundling’s War – Michel Déon
An underreported entrance into the forum of American letters.
Words might not always be good enough, but they’re the best we have, and Maggie Nelson is one of the best writers alive to use them.
Dear Herculine responds to the trauma of shame in a curious way, by failing to do precisely what shame is supposed to induce one to do: cover up.
‘SSES” ‘SSES” “SSEY’, vols 0 + 1 – Chaulky White
A hectic, dense, ‘zine-like object of utter catharsis.
Other Planes of There – Renée Green
Green’s voice remains one of questioning the world, through a continual prodding and reexamination of methods of understanding, transmission, and communication.