Reviews

The Artifact – Germán Sierra

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As technology continues to reshape our relationships to the world and others, the fight to protect the human species must begin with a social and historical understanding of what it means to be human.

Summer Cannibals – Melanie Hobson

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SUMMER CANNIBALS, Melanie Hobson’s addition to the canon of Country Manors In Sharp Decline, proposes another reason for the downfall of polite society: the patriarchy itself.

Father’s on the Phone with the Flies – Herta Müller

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In Müller’s work, emigration is often accompanied by violence, physical, emotional or intellectual. Texts and language reflect this violence.

The Animatic Apparatus – Deborah Levitt

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Perhaps one could narrate the movement from a cinematic to an animatic paradigm as an empowering rather than paranoid trajectory; as a movement from passively seeing with one’s eyes to actively producing bodies and ideas.

Destruction of Man – Abraham Smith

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DESTRUCTION OF MAN is among other things a savage, tender bestiary, a teeming universe in which the human figures as only one among countless symbiotic vital actors.

Crudo – Olivia Laing

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It is all so recent, so almost-up-to-date.

The Seas – Samantha Hunt

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Love in the Chthulucene, and in the shattered landscapes that this era presents, is forever incomplete and unsatisfied. It occurs in a shifting landscape, through the fissures of which previously buried uncertainties are constantly arising.

A Marxist Education – Wayne Au

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The overdetermination of education as a moral endeavor is rife both within the profession and in public and political discourse.

The Governesses – Anne Serre

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If a governess frolics and there is no elderly gentleman to witness it . . . ?

Ma Bo’le’s Second Life – Xiao Hong

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The reader will have to decide if it is ok to do the wrong thing for the right reason or the right thing for the wrong reason or the right thing for the right reason or the wrong thing for the wrong reason.