Jack Ruby and the Origins of the Avant-Garde in Dallas – Robert Trammell
Dallas in particular, makes weirdos, the truth of whose identities are more fruitfully explored at a bar stool than in a congressional commission.
Ross’s writing probes and tests assumptions that we often take for granted, and raises questions that will leave the reader musing, long after a story is finished.
Distant Fathers – Marina Jarre
Marina Jarre offers the reader a slow unraveling of the beauty of childhood . . . a time understood through sensation and stark moments of emotional clarity.
Distant Fathers – Marina Jarre
Some writers are made to pen memoirs.
The Luminous Novel – Mario Levrero
Literature offers no shelter, no comfort or rescue from the total crisis, and Levrero questions any attempt to claim literature as a respite or an escape.
If THE SICK LIST is an unconventional academic novel for its form, it captures one of the academic novel’s principal tropes here: anti-intellectualism.
Just as American fiction has undergone a change because of the influence and confluence of writers and writing on the internet, there’s a similar evolution in Percesepe’s stories.
Nitesh somehow retroactively renders our collective grieving experience less painful. Just by virtue of putting this set of images together, Nitesh makes us feel that we have all inhabited this same temporal space together.
The Other History of the DC Universe – John Ridley
Instead of looking at the profound inequalities expressed in superhero lore, particularly the ways in which heroes collaborate with rather than challenge power, they focus on Superman’s “white privilege” or the mansplaining of Dick Grayson.
In the Company of Men – Véronique Tadjo
While it is not a “Covid novel,” the book may inspire creative work that honors the stories of essential workers across the world today, even as it contests modernization and demands attention to global injustice.