Apocalypse Baby – Virginie Despentes
Solving a missing person case is more a matter of waiting for that person to connect back to the grid, even for just a moment.
Alexis takes up notions of language and consciousness on a fundamental level, and what it means to have both or one without the other.
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary – Sarah Manguso
Reading this essay gives me hope that I will outgrow my fear of death.
Midnight in the Century – Victor Serge
Whether or not the arc of the universe bends towards justice, it might be better if we could hold onto the idea that it might. If we try to bend it that way, maybe it could.
The First Bad Man – Miranda July
Combat is intimate. Living is intimate. The space between my socks and the front of my boots is intimate.
Texas: The Great Theft – Carmen Boullosa
It’s an interesting counterpart to a mainstream Anglo-Texan version of this history that erases the violence.
The University of Pennsylvania – Caren Beilin
Suffused with the unwieldy body historically associated with femininity, Beilin’s work is evasive, unruly, nonsensical.
I’m Very Into You – Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark
What changed with the availability of email is not so much the effect of time as that of space on communication.
Tom McCarthy’s fiction quite palpably poses a challenge to entrenched reading habits and subverts conventional literary practice.
The Tusk That Did the Damage – Tania James
The elephant carries what would otherwise be a thoughtful narrative of an American twenty-something.