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A Sea Monster Calls
A revisionist take on Moby-Dick with contemporary sociopolitical echoes.
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Of Place and Identity: Working-Class Writing in 21st-Century Britain
A collection of working-class essays from Britain breaks down walls and shatters categories.
Specter of a White Minority
Robert L. Tsai explores how the specter of a white minority fuels contemporary conservative discourse.
A Fatigued Fight: Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard’s “Violence: Humans in Dark Times”
Though written in its own inside language, a new anthology offers a roadmap to troubled times.
Beyond “Carceral Capitalism”
In "Carceral Capitalism," Wang’s essays set up the abolition of the carceral state as one of the key moral battles of this century.
When the Apocalypse Didn’t Come
A memoir about growing up in a cult offers only a partial view of the picture.
“Russian Enough for You Here?”: A Review of “Journey Into the Mind’s Eye” by Lesley Blanch
Written in 1968 and reprinted by NYRB Classics, “Journey Into the Mind’s Eye,” Blanch’s hybrid work is startlingly ahead of its time.
Messy Human Beings: On “In the Distance with You”
"In the Distance with You" has all the twists and turns of a long-running daytime soap. What ultimately carries it isn’t the plot, but the characters.
Two Ways to See Every Story
Jedidiah Ayres reviews “The Good Son” by You-Jeong Jeong.
Two Mirrors: On Leonid Yuzefovich’s “Horsemen of the Sands”
Yelena Furman rides along with “Horsemen of the Sands” by Leonid Yuzefovich, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz.
I Never Got the Knack of Fidelity: On Gabriela Wiener’s “Crónicas”
Lisa Fetchko reviews Gabriela Wiener's "Sexographies."
Not Unpacking but Seeking
A collection of essays on gender, the body, resistance, and the Occupy Movement.
Adrift and Unmoored
Nathan Jefferson reviews “Cult X” by Fuminori Nakamura.
Growing Up and Moving On
How YA fiction deals with sexual abuse in the #MeToo era.
The Old Left: “Conscience” by Alice Mattison
"Conscience" is a curious book. Every time I wanted to object, Mattison pulled me back in.
Gendered “Revenge” in Emma Ramadan’s Reworking of Brice Matthieussent’s Meta-Novel
Arshy Azizi thinks Emma Ramadan’s translation of Brice Matthieussent’s “Revenge of the Translator” constitutes a radical act of subversion.
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