The Summer Demands – Deborah Shapiro
The book is “a celebration of cusps.” Those of adulthood; of motherhood; of desire and ambition; of memory and history, and those that that decipher generations.
this window makes me feel – Robert Fitterman
More than a droll sobfest or a gothic howl, the poem is a tragic ode to our age’s wasted potential.
Mouthful of Birds – Samanta Schweblin
The dark suggestion at the heart of MOUTHFUL OF BIRDS is that perhaps the surreal and the strange is in fact the ordinary.
Allegory and Ideology – Frederic Jameson
More than a work of literary criticism, Jameson’s new book shows us that any positive political developments to emerge from globalization will demand a new form of conceptualizing this seemingly unimaginable collection of human beings.
Marxist Literary Criticism Today – Barbara Foley
The message of Marxist criticism has more to offer students striving for change while facing the world.
This is OVAL’s central joke, and also its most cutting observation: in our current age of convenience culture and mass gentrification, what does it take to live an ethical life?
Holt House – L. G. Vey; A Dedicated Friend – Shirley Longford; Judderman – D. A. Northwood
Simply, the question of Dead Ink horror is about that which haunts us and why it haunts us.
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.