Reviews

The Disaster Tourist – Yun Ko-Eun

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Class is something we act out, and, in THE DISASTER TOURIST, Yun satirizes those who write the script.

Skyland – Andrew Durbin

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Skyland is most preoccupied with this very relationship, the one between fiction and reality, or autobiography, and how this relationship is fraught, one streaked by slippage.

The Eyelid – S. D. Chrostowska

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The Eyelid is a refreshed dream of dreams inspired by the great dreamers of all times.

Drama Queens – Vickie Gendreau

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Drama Queens extends Vickie’s life, a version of it, and Aimee Wall’s translation is part of that continuation.

Sensation Machines – Adam Wilson

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Stories can do more than sell products and mislead people. They can also help us come to terms with our pasts. They can show us new ways of being. And they can motivate us to change.

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers – Jenn Shapland

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MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY cracks the normative bounds of literary scholarship and shows us what kind of knowledge production is possible when the researcher drops the veneer of “scholarly objectivity” and makes herself fully present in the research process.

Selling the Farm: Descants from a Recollected Past – Debra Di Blasi

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Selling the Farm does not offer an easy, glib greenness. A post-anthropocentric perspective — i.e., we need to get over ourselves — is a quixotic adventure, perhaps doomed, but a necessary leap of the imagination.

Pierrot’s Fingernails – Kit Schluter

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You can take the poet out of their times, but you cannot take the timelessness out of their poetics (if they, the poet, are really any good, arguably).

Whiteout Conditions – Tariq Shah

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WHITEOUT CONDITIONS is a book concerned with toxic masculinity’s erasure of the self; it’s walls and moats.

No Fascist USA! – Hilary Moore and James Tracy

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Their enduring legacy may be that white supremacy never stops with the neo-Nazis, even if you choose to start fighting it there.