Reviews

Aristotle’s Wife: Six Short Plays About Women in Science – Claudia Barnett

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This idea of science as a pure and separated sphere, divorced from politics and social dynamics, is a longstanding myth.

Darryl – Jackie Ess

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Far from lampooning the men at this ego crisis’s center, as is customary online, Ess’s novel Darryl takes us into the mind of a self-described “cuckold” with nuance, humor, and most importantly, empathy. 

Goat Song – Konstantin Vaginov

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Exploiting the experience of others, Whistlin turns living people into hollow characters, artificial objects in both senses of the word.

The Möbius Book – Catherine Lacey

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Lacey writes how Meg White drums: layered simplicity, phrase by primal phrase.

Debt Ritual – Katie Naughton

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A series of odes to material culture and social structures, Debt Ritual is a project through which the writer is working out questions increasingly fundamental to the vocation of writing.

Río Muerto – Ricardo Silva Romero

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This choice—to speak or remain silent—is the hinge upon which Silva Romero’s RÍO MUERTO turns

When The Horses – Mary Helen Callier

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In this collection, light is less revealing than it is blinding, distortive and receding.

The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital – Leopoldina Fortunati

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In addition to being rigorous, Fortunati’s text is ruthless, stripping away every plank of Marx’s platform to show the underside of labor, the women’s work that wasn’t worth his noting.

Howling Women – Shelby Hinte

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Shelby Hinte’s debut novel HOWLING WOMEN investigates curiosity over blame, looking at the story beneath action.

True Failure – Alex Higley

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All Ben possesses is a “raw, empty want” and his own unemployed self. Inside this absence, TRUE FAILURE’s antics begin to populate.