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Way Far Away by Evelio Rosero: The Dream of Hope in the Ecosystem of Violence
Feb 24, 2025
Way Far Away by Evelio Rosero: The Dream of Hope in the Ecosystem of Violence
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
Tweet Review: "Books can't depict time."
Jun 11, 2020
Tweet Review: "Books can't depict time."
Jun 11, 2020
Jun 11, 2020
Apparitions of the Living by John Trefry: Mystery Murders
May 3, 2019
Apparitions of the Living by John Trefry: Mystery Murders
May 3, 2019

While there is a plot to Apparitions of the Living, the narrative contained within the text is mere subplot to the larger plot of the reader’s engagement with the composite of the object and textual qualities of the book.

May 3, 2019
Essays and Fictions by Brad Phillips: We arent up for sainthood.
Jan 25, 2019
Essays and Fictions by Brad Phillips: We arent up for sainthood.
Jan 25, 2019

Constructing personae as a defense against death. The knowability of others. His whole artistic project has been a long eulogy. A multimedia patchwork of suicidal ideation.

Jan 25, 2019
The Switch by Shiv Kotecha: Fucking, Not Fucking, Friendship
Jan 16, 2019
The Switch by Shiv Kotecha: Fucking, Not Fucking, Friendship
Jan 16, 2019

Shiv manages it, you know. He manages to talk about love, or talk about talking about love and how talking about love mucks up love. But he doesn’t muck it up, at least not when he’s writing, even though his writing is so tempered by fears of and apologies for mucking it up that surely, you’d think, he must muck it up.

Jan 16, 2019
North Was Here by Ellie Ga: To Draw Maps
Dec 30, 2018
North Was Here by Ellie Ga: To Draw Maps
Dec 30, 2018

As an artifact, it initially seems incredibly bare, reducing an experience to the simplest of visual symbols and the tersest of prose. Upon close study, it becomes clear that there is much contained within North Was Here which does not demand detailed explication and which lay teeming under a cold, glacial surface.

Dec 30, 2018
Away! Away! by Jana Beňová: Woman-in-Motion
Dec 14, 2018
Away! Away! by Jana Beňová: Woman-in-Motion
Dec 14, 2018

You, Jana Beňová, are, of course, fated to the lineage of Lispector, Lefebvre, and Cixous, women who do not bother to pin their words down to the ground but let them swirl up above, overhead.

Dec 14, 2018
The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya: Shells & Yolk
Nov 28, 2018
The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya: Shells & Yolk
Nov 28, 2018

Reading Motoya, you forget what weird is. You forget what is normal… When Yukiko Motoya sets out to write a story, whether it be situated in marital strife or at the market, she takes our mundane observations and concerns, cracks them, and cooks with the weird egg gunk

Nov 28, 2018
The Hole by José Revueltas: Smuggling Hope
Oct 20, 2018
The Hole by José Revueltas: Smuggling Hope
Oct 20, 2018

For the inmates in Revueltas’s The Hole, as with Vladimir and Estragon in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, the hopelessness of their outcome in life breaks them, their physicality and humanity also warped around a banged up idea of time.

Oct 20, 2018
Art
Disaster Catalog
Apr 15, 2019
Disaster Catalog
Apr 15, 2019

a woman catalogs a list of responses to a fire

Apr 15, 2019
99 Flowers by Dianna Settles: Close Revelations
Aug 24, 2018
99 Flowers by Dianna Settles: Close Revelations
Aug 24, 2018

Her work could be described as collapsing the space between still life and portraiture, to the extent that it can often be read as still lifes of faces while simultaneously being read as a portraits of objects.

Aug 24, 2018
Music
White Fungus Issue 16: Sounds of Control
Feb 2, 2019
White Fungus Issue 16: Sounds of Control
Feb 2, 2019

Many pieces incorporated into Issue 16 of Taiwan-based arts magazine White Fungus seemingly attempt to address a number of similar questions pertaining to sound, how we experience it, and how we subvert it.

Feb 2, 2019
Odd Talk by Ganser: Please Leave Your Message After the Tone
May 9, 2018
Odd Talk by Ganser: Please Leave Your Message After the Tone
May 9, 2018

Among the astonishing mass of communication, of thoughts and emotions, that we have access to in our contemporary world, so little is heard and even less retained.

May 9, 2018
Featured
Juno (2007) in Retrospective
May 22, 2018
Juno (2007) in Retrospective
May 22, 2018

Re-watching Juno a decade on is a jarring trip down memory lane, illuminated by the conventions of today. I was struck by how, in spite of the crush on Ellen Page I shared with so many girls coming into their sexuality, I was oblivious to her dykish cues, so obvious from her walk alone.

May 22, 2018
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