Moving the Bones / Rick Barot / Milkweed Editions, October 15, 2024 – $16 (paperback) “You are told to believe in one paradise / and…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 17th
Field Guide for Accidents / Albert Abonado / Beacon Press, October 22, 2024 – $18 (paperback) Starving and unstoppable: Albert Abonado’s latest poetry collection, “Field…
Film Review: “Hind’s Hall”
If I were to describe the experience of watching Hind’s Hall in one word, it would be visceral. The film, which is a docu-fiction produced…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 27th
d-sorientation / Charleen McClure / BOA Editions Ltd., September 3, 2024 – $18 (paperback) Charleen McClure’s d-sorientation is an exploration of space: the expansive empty…
The Superhighway of “The Code”
Since its 2020 release, I have been talking about and making my friends watch Eugene Kotlyarenko’s Spree. It is the most accurate filmic depiction of…
Review: THE WESTERN IS A SPEECH ACT. RUN TIME APPROX 20 MIN
Mid-September, I attended an exposition of local and regional experiments in text and sound hosted by Opus 40, an upstate museum and sculpture park located…
Review: Pig
Sam Sax’s Pig follows the queer, Jewish writer and educator’s two prior successful poetry books, Madness (2017) and bury it (2018). Composed of poems published…
Sunday Staff Picks: November 5th
An unfiltered honesty defines Samantha Irby’s Quietly Hostile. A collection of seventeen, personal essays, the book offers a cacophonous blend of uproarious humor and intimate…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 28th
Nicole Chung’s Living Remedy is the first memoir I’ve read that made me cry. Part of this lies in the subject matter. The first section…
Review: Conspiracist Manifesto
Valentina Desidiri and Stefano Harney start their essay “A Conspiracy Without A Plot” with a hell of a provocation: “Today it is not possible to…