Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest In 3 Acts – Aruna D’Souza
WHITEWALLING: ART, RACE, & PROTEST IN 3 ACTS exposes systems that perpetuate racial oppression in the art world and pricks a bubble of white-centered consciousness with a clear message about complicity.
POSO WELLS is the sort of dizzying novel that only begins to make sense as it finishes, but then becomes so fascinating that you want to read the hazy first hundred pages all over again.
Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention – David Shields
If actual [David] Shields were really serious about ending the oligarchy, he’d have written a different book.
The Houseguest and Other Stories – Amparo Dávila
Cortázar seems unwilling to recognize that what one person finds excessive another will consider just the right touch.
The Anguish of Thought — Évelyne Grossman
Anguish is, after all, the core watchword of modernism, beloved of avant-garde artists, writers, and thinkers since the salons of the mid-nineteenth century.
RIDDANCE, it turns out, is not simply (or even primarily) a gothic fantasy about communing with the dead but an allegory about writing.
When our tiny tour group was called to join our guide, instead of flashy ghostbuster jumpsuit or LED-studded skeleton or goth employee just dressed regular, we got Steve.
Modern Science and Anarchy – Peter Kropotkin
MODERN SCIENCE AND ANARCHY deserves to be read, if only to briefly inhabit the intoxication of Kropotkin’s hope.
NEVADA DAYS doesn’t match up to plot-driven works of fiction — despite its sub-plot of sexual assault and murder — because that’s not the kind of fiction Atxaga has written.
Toddler Hunting and Other Stories – Taeko Kono
Though Kono is absorbed with domestic life, she pushes the conventional limits of realism by exposing the ways in which the rules of domesticity are artificial, provisional, or self-imposed.