Tag: literature

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The Irreconcilable Fanny Howe

Jamie Hood

May 16, 2022

Fanny Howe’s oeuvre embraces unknowingness.

Working Landscapes

John Merrick

May 05, 2022

Barry Hines’s pastoral fiction offers an antidote to the British country house novel.

Lost in the Supermarket

Rhian Sasseen

May 04, 2022

Browsing the literature of the grocery store

A Fabric of Surfaces

Victoria Baena

April 27, 2022

Celia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John reaches across the years to pose questions of art, love, and self-possession.

Ask Dr. Mueller

Jeremy Lybarger

April 26, 2022

A downtown icon and John Waters muse, Cookie Mueller was devoted to beauty and pleasure.

Sex Miseducation

Whitney Strub

February 23, 2022

A bildungsroman of boomer hermeneutics.

Cold Comfort

Kristen Martin

February 21, 2022

Sarah Manguso’s icy debut novel.

How Should a Person Tree?

Jack Hanson

February 14, 2022

On Sheila Heti’s creation myth.

Body and Soul

Sam Russek

January 31, 2022

Adrian Nathan West discusses body-building, mindfulness, and whether the self is an illusion.

Carnival of Souls

Dustin Illingworth

December 20, 2021

On the exhilarating bleakness of Rafael Chirbes’s fiction.

Lord of the Flies

Max Pearl

November 17, 2021

Science fiction and settler colonialism collide in Rafael Bernal's Mexico.

A Living Weapon in Your Hand

Francesca Wade

November 03, 2021

Diane di Prima's poetry combined revolutionary ideas and spiritual fervor.