Aristotle’s Wife: Six Short Plays About Women in Science – Claudia Barnett
This idea of science as a pure and separated sphere, divorced from politics and social dynamics, is a longstanding myth.
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
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
Lacey writes how Meg White drums: layered simplicity, phrase by primal phrase.
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
This choice—to speak or remain silent—is the hinge upon which Silva Romero’s RÍO MUERTO turns
When The Horses – Mary Helen Callier
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
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.
Shelby Hinte’s debut novel HOWLING WOMEN investigates curiosity over blame, looking at the story beneath action.
All Ben possesses is a “raw, empty want” and his own unemployed self. Inside this absence, TRUE FAILURE’s antics begin to populate.