Reviews

Social Poetics – Mark Nowak

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The poet is someone who facilitates the articulation of dissent.

Machines In The Head – Anna Kavan

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Her stories feel prescient today; they capture the madness and degradation of isolation and living in a ravaged world.

Abigail – Magda Szabo

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Szabo’s ABIGAIL is a moral — though not moralizing — book.

The Dominant Animal – Kathryn Scanlan

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We are all the more at the mercy of writers like Scanlan who provide new ways of seeing what has already been seen.

Lake Like a Mirror – Ho Sok Fong

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The business of dehumanizing people and pushing them off the part of the earth that can be shared with other humans, is mostly the pretty mundane.

Car Park Life – Gareth E. Rees

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The account of people claiming public space, although these car parks may be far from the standard health and safety regulations, starts to sound heroic in a country where most land is owned by the landed gentry and public spaces and buildings are continuously being marked for “development.”

Edie on the Green Screen – Beth Lisick

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Reading Lisick’s books today suggests that, as all politics are local, the global web hysteria that destroyed American politics as we know it also began locally.

The Temple of Silence – Justin Duerr

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“Wiggle much?” Probably not as much as I should.

Savage Gods – Paul Kingsnorth

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SAVAGE GODS is a reluctant book, an aporia of sorts, and is often miserable in its struggle against itself.

Ghost Dance – Carole Maso

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Neither Maso nor her characters are afraid to transgress presumed boundaries.