Tag: book review

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Empty Suits

Bailey Trela

August 02, 2023

In the spy novels of Javier Marías, the late author never stopped reinventing himself.

Drone Realism

Grayson Scott

July 03, 2023

You can’t tell a story about drones without additionally telling a surveillance story.

Comey As You Are

Kenneth Dillon

June 22, 2023

James Comey’s will to power has nowhere to flourish but in his mind.

Fear and Loathing on Melrose Place

Will Harrison

June 21, 2023

In Jack Skelley’s LA, everything—even basic reality—is warped or subject to question.

Archival Frictions

Sadie Graham

June 13, 2023

Painting a fuller picture of lesbian experience.

Queer History Now!

Ben Miller

June 07, 2023

A truly queer history means that all must be rendered strange.

A Luso-Tropical Holy Grail

Meg Weeks

May 25, 2023

A classic of Brazilian modernism gets its due in a new translation.

Bully Superstar

Jeremy Lybarger

May 23, 2023

The high drama and cool shallows of Fassbinder.

Thinking Like a Mountain

Madeleine Crum

April 06, 2023

On Tom Comitta’s ecological fiction.

The Queer Art of Cruelty

Kevin Brazil

February 28, 2023

The defiant drag of Doris Fish.

Dream of a Past

Ella Fox-Martens

November 10, 2022

On H.D.’s writing and rewriting of herself—and her past.

To Name It Now

Vi Khi Nao

October 27, 2022

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha wielded her experimental body against marginalization.