Savage Conversations – LeAnne Howe
What kind of satisfaction comes with the action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone for a wrong suffered at their hands, and what kind of pleasure comes with receiving such vengeance? Who has the need, the right, the duty, the perversity?
This complex, psychological portrait of celebrity is a propulsive, enduring narrative that eerily predicts our contemporary digital tensions of the self.
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage – Bette Howland
Of course this is a criminal state of affairs — we’ve forgotten a genius.
The Nocilla Trilogy – Agustín Fernández Mallo
Its formal innovation and experimentation mark THE NOCILLA TRILOGY as stepping into a globalized and networked world
In TENTACLE, the manipulation of science fiction tropes is not a gimmick or trick, but a way to illustrate how impossibly intertwined the many forces are that have shaped the history of the Dominican Republic
If this coast-bound itinerancy is the late-twentieth century American dream—Didion and manifest destiny and all that—what happens when cost of living and barriers to entry inhibit all but the most fortunate few, when even the honest trade of writing is reduced to a pipe dream for the nation’s finest literary talents?
The Word for Woman is Wilderness – Abi Andrews
THE WORD FOR WOMAN IS WILDERNESS might better be named Patriarchy Happens (Even in the Woods).
Obscenity and the Arts – Anthony Burgess, Germaine Greer, and Andrew Biswell
Burgess’s lecture comes across as pat and facile as it does because he wanted more than anything to show the Maltese that he and his books weren’t a danger to anyone thank-you-very-much and can-I-have-my-fucking-books-back-please.
In Gingerbread, Oyeyemi dismisses the idea of a single indisputable account of events.
The Naked Woman – Armonía Somers
THE NAKED WOMAN continues to speak to us nowadays as fiercely and urgently as seventy years ago: more than ever, women’s bodies are the place of political battles that seek to change the way we understand desire, consent, and autonomy.