A Working Theory of Love – Scott Hutchins
Only in San Francisco, a city living in perpetual danger of the power of the San Andreas Fault, could love be seen as a “territory all its own[,] prone to seismic trickery.”
The Polish Boxer – Eduardo Halfon
“As we write, we know that there is something very important to be said about reality, that we have this something within reach, just there, so close, on the tip of our tongue, and that we mustn’t forget it. But always, without fail, we do.”
Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures – Emma Straub
It all happens like a Disneyland ride, one where the reader is buckled into a narrow cart and pushed along on a track past miniature scenes backed by relentlessly tinkling music.
Big Ray concerns itself with the leviathan and loud, but it accomplishes this quietly.
Persecution – Alessandro Piperno
Like inspecting the colon when symptoms all point to emphysema, Piperno seems to lose track of his purpose in order to demonstrate his capacity to examine.
Eva Illouz sets out to do for emotional suffering and romantic love what Marx did for commodities.
Most stories are about individuals caught in the politics of their surroundings — it’s just more obvious when it’s about Palestine.
The title is an understatement: the real story told here is the story of the world, and how we live in it.
If Swensen brings us into contact with ghosts in Gravesend, it is by means of these subterranean poems concealed in the unconscious of their printed counterparts.
Growing Up Absurd – Paul Goodman
“Socialization to what?” is a radical question. But it’s also fairly easy to gloss over under certain social circumstances.