Festivals turn writers into characters, Mona explains. Writers arrive as the creator of possibilities and worlds, but they depart as puppets, functionaries for a plot. Or worse, as flora and fauna for the landscape.
Asylum Road is a gripping blend of character study and psychological thriller that reads like a macabre love letter to a generation that was told the fairy tale version of globalization only to find that it ends anything but happily.
Points of Attack – Mark de Silva
These essays or pieces or feuilletons or Barthesian mythologies — whatever you want to call them — are the correct form for our age
I ask, what does epic make possible for contemporary women writers? And I read works that point me in a direction – toward a telling that shapes differently, imagines in new ways, and meets a present time.
An Inventory of Losses – Judith Schalansky
If there is evidence that everything lost, burnt, drowned and gone extinct can eventually be researched, rediscovered and recovered, don’t we lose the skill and courage to fight the unfathomably roaring monsters that gulp up part of our worlds?
At the Edge of the Night – Friedo Lampe
The Hesperus Press edition of Friedo Lampe’s AT THE EDGE OF THE NIGHT raises the possibility that a lost German classic could well be overshadowed by its author’s extraordinary life story.
With the matched rise of the far-right and mass antifascism, there has been a critical need for scholarship that helps create a vital living history. A number of academics, journals, and publishers have started to take this seriously.
Because the story happens just the way it happens, chickens live on.
Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From – Sawako Nakayasu
Through tongue-in-cheek revelries, “some girls” disturb the myths of origin, genre, and gender.
Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry: Art, America, and the Mom in Pop – M. I. Devine
The totality of Devine’s work is steeped in an American mythos to reclaim the synergy of pop songs, poetry, and photography for our own contemporary imagination.