Reading her book was akin to stumbling upon a coworker’s diary (or, more realistically, an outspoken social media profile), an exercise I found simultaneously fascinating and mildly discomfiting.
Proud to be Un-American Read More »
Reading her book was akin to stumbling upon a coworker’s diary (or, more realistically, an outspoken social media profile), an exercise I found simultaneously fascinating and mildly discomfiting.
An Inventory of Losses captures the imagination in individual time capsules that prompt us to reflect on our own losses.
An Inventory of Losses, by Judith Schalansky (New Directions) trans. Jackie Smith Read More »
An Inventory of Losses captures the imagination in individual time capsules that prompt us to reflect on our own losses.
Music for the Dead and Resurrected is a timely antidote to popular over-identifications with nationally sanctioned narratives, the kind that disappears the nuanced stories that help shape an individual’s sense of home and purpose.
Music for the Dead and Resurrected is a timely antidote to popular over-identifications with nationally sanctioned narratives, the kind that disappears the nuanced stories that help shape an individual’s sense of home and purpose.
“We readers are watching Gay watching a video clip as he curates a personal museum exhibit that is part memoir and part historical monument.”
Witnessing the Unwitnessable: On Be Holding by Ross Gay Read More »
“We readers are watching Gay watching a video clip as he curates a personal museum exhibit that is part memoir and part historical monument.”
Through the exploration of strained body-self relationships, scientific facts, history, love, loneliness, queerness, and hate, Sala weaves together narratives that ask their readers to consider where they came from, how they are engaging with time— however wrought and distressing— and where they will return to after death.
Devil’s Lake: Finding Self at the World’s End Read More »
Through the exploration of strained body-self relationships, scientific facts, history, love, loneliness, queerness, and hate, Sala weaves together narratives that ask their readers to consider where they came from, how they are engaging with time— however wrought and distressing— and where they will return to after death.
