For any seducer, whether it is Prince or a more proximate old flame, withholding is the grammar.
All Your Children, Scattered – Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Underneath the narrative of three broken generations simmers the horrific damage of colonialism, both by the French and Belgian people, by racism, and lastly, and perhaps most confusingly, by fatherlessness.
The artist and narrator of The Logos has a gift for capturing the acute essence of his subjects.
In effect, Solenoid imagines a world in which Gregor Samsa wakes up to find that he is still a human being after all, and this is somehow worse.
or, on being the other woman – Simone White
White looks for a way out of herself, beyond the confines of her body, and the systems of oppression meant to control her.
In the Black Fantastic – ed. Ekow Eshun
Even surging past the final frontier, the Black fantastic remains aware of the constraints it aims to explode.
Normal, Regular, and Rich: Charlie Markbreiter’s Gossip Girl Fan Novella
What becomes clear over the course of Gossip Girl Fan Novella is that no one has a very good grasp on what constitutes “normalcy” or “real life.”
Other People’s Beds – Anna Punsoda
Reading difficult work [is] an act of reconnaissance: scoping out different containers into which we can imagine pouring our otherwise formless and messy thoughts, memories, and observations.
Alindarka’s Children – Alhierd Bacharevič
To be a child of Alindarka is to be a child of linguistic confusion, to be perpetually misunderstood.
Carmelina: Figures & Virgil Kills: Stories – Ronaldo V. Wilson
Neither doubles nor doppelgangers of one another, Wilson and Carmelina, son and mother, make us rethink the question of lineage in new and unpredictable ways.