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…
Sunday Staff Picks: April 16th
Fred Moten’s perennial fashion presence falling revels in the full sensuous range of poetic language as aural and visual medium. Animated by homonymous play and…
Sunday Staff Picks: March 26th
Szilvia Molnar’s debut novel The Nursery is visceral and uncomfortable— Molnar presents the reader with a portrait of new motherhood with all its agonies, its…
Sunday Staff Picks: March 19th
An Yu’s Ghost Music is one that feels intimately real and hypnotically unreal in equal measure: at its heart, it is a domestic drama, chronicling…
Sunday Staff Picks: March 5th
Maggie Millner’s Couplets feels both timely and self-assuredly out-of-place in the landscape of contemporary American poetry. The novel in verse was published in early February,…
Sunday Staff Picks: February 26th
Apocalypse, and all its world-ending associations, might feel like an apt definition of our era. Franny Choi’s poetry collection The World Keeps Ending and the…
Sunday Staff Picks: February 5th
When I first opened Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung, I sat alone in my room, one among the laststragglers of those yet to vacate campus…
Sunday Staff Picks: January 29th
Is zero a number? 0 is the exception to many numerological rules. A number cannot be dived by 0, and any product of 0 is…