Russell suggests that this is what writers can do for others and themselves: sing with absence while respecting absence.
Libraries amid Protest: Books, Organizing, and Global Activism – Sherrin Frances
What is original about Libraries amid Protest is Frances’ decision to foreground the library not as a distraction from the “real work” of the occupation but as a key component of its politics.
That Hair – Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
Narrator Mila’s story — or stories — of her hair, the different phases of treatments, evolving senses of attachment, dissociation, indifference, and reinvigoration concerning her hair, are naturally diminutive allegories for a larger postcolonial existential journey.
My Private Lennon – Sibbie O’Sullivan
The Beatles in some way offered themselves to be viewed, to be ogled and admired, to be lusted after. To frame it even in this way, however, is to give so much precedence to the object.
Texts like Lucia invite us to reconsider Lucia as not simply an ruined and silenced woman, interesting only by virtue of being the daughter of James Joyce, but an artist who could have had an outlet, could have given herself and left us with more.
Sansei and Sensibility – Karen Tei Yamashita
It doesn’t take a Janeite, however, to enjoy these stories, or to sense that Yamashita’s engagement with Austen runs somewhere between pastiche and parody.
The Wanting was a Wilderness – Alden Jones
Exploring the terrain of truth, especially of ourselves, especially the mirror of our past actions, is not for those lacking determination.
The Artist as Economist: Art and Capitalism in the 1960s – Sophie Cras
Even as this text overtly laments the degree to which Marxist art criticism has focused too greatly upon the political underpinnings of the artwork (ideology critique), this study ultimately finds itself succumbing to its own third way politics.
My Art is Killing Me and Other Poems – Amber Dawn
My Art is Killing Me reflects what it’s like to intimately carry someone else’s exhale; Dawn’s work becomes like a release of the tension, a liturgy on the job.
Bright Lights, Medium-Sized City – Nathan Holic
Nathan Holic toys with the role of writer as creator in his book BRIGHT LIGHTS, MEDIUM SIZED CITY.