When the ranks of climate refugees grow steadily, new ways of structuring our lives will have to be tested.
A detective story that ends with “[NO END]” may scarcely be called a detective story.
99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value — Brian Massumi
Post-capitalist thinking here is not a navel-gazing exercise in utopian fabulation, but a very direct imperative to think through capitalist value-structures.
Crosslight for Youngbird – Asiya Wadud
Wadud’s poems of witness are far less remote than one might expect of an often commemorative tradition, underwritten by a deep physical sympathy.
Read in the broadest terms, in the context of literary modernism, INTIMATE TIES seems especially concerned with the psyche, sexuality, and repression.
Nothing but the Night – John Williams
The last of Williams’s novels to be reissued, 1948’s NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT now marks the inevitable death knell of the Williams literary revival.
All My Goodbyes – Mariana Dimópulos
Dimópulos works directly against one of the age-old creative writing workshop adages: don’t lose your reader in time.
I’m Open to Anything – William E. Jones
The book, both in its physicality and content, poses a challenge not to conservative forces who would immediately shut it down, but rather to progressive and “open-minded” people who support queer writing — but only if it’s “literary” and respectable.
A Delicate Aggression – David O. Dowling
Dowling is uncritical and unsentimental in his portrayal of the mfa as the death-knell of creative solitude, spontaneous community-making, and writing for writing’s sake.
Meander, Spiral, Explode – Jane Alison
Why would the exploration of the formal possibilities (in all their complexity) not be just as crucial to the integrity of fiction as evoking emotion in the reader?