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 26th
Mona Awad’s Rouge is obsessed with reflections— self-perceptions and the distortions that arise when we stare too long into ourselves. The novel centers around Mirabelle,…
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…
“Veraison” By Peter Kline
“Veraison” By Peter Kline I didn’t know what I was feeling.If I had changed it was like the change of cancer,disobedience flickering like a broken…
“I Love You Snakeface” By Olivia Treynor
“I Love You Snakeface” By Olivia Treynor It was the start of summer: my mother driving, her fingers clutching the steering wheel with a grip…
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…