Reviews

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.

Becoming Horses – Disa Wallander

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This is HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON for adults, a road map for anyone who makes or wants to make art.

Race After Technology – Ruha Benjamin

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If racism is being “retooled,” then so too must the abolitionist imaginaries dedicated to a society and world free of carceral and police violence.

A Czech Dreambook – Ludvík Vaculík

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One job for intellectuals in a crisis might be not just arguing the right point but also the art of showing one’s working.

Wave Archive – Emmalea Russo

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Russo does not really argue for the entanglement of epilepsy with the person who suffers from it. WAVE ARCHIVE embodies this entanglement, and never settles into a conclusion.

Cat in the Agrahāram and Other Stories – Dilip Kumar

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Kumar is a writer of proximities, a poet of the close-quartered soul, so it’s not surprising his command of atmosphere is masterful; his stories emanate a sense of the simple density of life.

Telephone – Percival Everett

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For fans of Everett’s more satirical fictions, Telephone might seem like a wayward attempt at conventionality, but behind the homebound setting’s realist framing is a novel no less attuned to the culture around it.

Had I Known – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Thoughtfully selected and arranged, the chronological staggering of the texts in this volume underscores parallels across Ehrenreich’s more than three decades as a public intellectual and political commentator.

Translation is a Mode=Translation is an Anti-Neocolonial Mode – Don Mee Choi

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The essay is a tightly woven crystallization of ideas that appear throughout Choi’s work, including linguistic nonequivalence and one’s sense of home under neocolonization.