Editor Sofia Montrone reviews Larissa Pham’s Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy In the silence, in the dark, Larissa Pham hears something shift. First…
“My fantasy of a memoir about nothing”: Kate Zambreno’s Drifts
Kate Zambreno’s latest work of autofiction, Drifts, is a novel about the process of writing a novel, or, at least, the process of thinking about…
Apocalypse Now: Reading Severance in the Time of Coronavirus
Severance / Ling Ma / Picador, 05/2019 – $17 (Paperback) The routine has become automatic. In the mornings I stand bleary-eyed at the counter and…
Endnotes on Pale Fire
Azure adj. blue, bright, cloudless; (of love) cloudless: The false azure of cloudless love. And when a noun – heaven, palate, the roof of one’s…
Anatomy of Absence
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There was a hole at the table where her son used to be. Once he had sat across from her and made reluctant single-syllable conversation,…
Affettuoso (After Caravaggio)
Watcher – this, your face pink-cheeked with abandon. This your hidden, thrumming hand. This, your wine-shadowed longing draped over his shoulders, laid flush against the…