The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America – Lisa Z. Sigel
THE PEOPLE’S PORN provides timelines and contexts showing that, no matter what obscenity laws our nation puts in place, individuals have always expressed their sexuality through art and crafts.
Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper – Diarmuid Hester
It was something like 2016 and I was sitting at the big La Colombe in Fishtown, in Philadelphia, reading Dennis Cooper’s THE SLUTS when I realized I was going to pass out.
Butler’s now habitual formal and stylistic maneuvers are beginning to seem more apparent.
CHRONOLOGY is a polyvocal text, a poetics of archive. The act of reading feels akin to debriefing with a friend. The impulse to help pull it together collectively.
Off Limits: New Writings on Fear and Sin – Nawal El Saadawi
In every one of the essays in Off Limits, El Saadawi calls for an ethic characterized by relating across difference that, far from reproducing discriminatory violence, might attend to difference as a catalyst of freedom.
Native Tongue Trilogy – Suzette Haden Elgin
A forgotten classic of feminist dystopian fiction, the NATIVE TONGUE trilogy is a brilliant illustration of how writers might use genre to grapple with the problems of patriarchy.
The Last Taxi Driver – Lee Durkee
The world’s cabbies and their chroniclers know but two time periods, BTD and ATD.
Little Eyes – Samanta Schweblin
In the cyborg fable, it’s not just the perpetrator who suffers at the end.
The City of Good Death – Priyanka Champaneri
The modern novel feeds almost entirely on free will — a compelling demonstration of the full and rebellious exercise of which, if we are to agree with (among others) Camus, is what separates the literary novel from myth, legend, parable, and genre writing.
Exposition / The White Dress – Nathalie Léger
Nathalie Leger’s triptych is a balletic interpretation over the line between fiction and criticism.