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Science Fiction Can Change the World: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

  • Brian Ted Jones
  • May 11, 2017
With Borne VanderMeer presents a parable about modern life, in these shaky days of roughshod industrialism, civilizational collapse, and looming planetary catastrophe.
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The Queer Valentine of the Century: Jenny Johnson’s In Full Velvet

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • May 10, 2017
In Full Velvet offers the truth of a woman’s life—the queer truth, the queer rose, the queer valentine. And everything is different after that moment of initiation, instantiation.
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The Otherworldly Intrigue of Daisy Johnson’s Fen

  • E.B. Bartels
  • May 9, 2017
As a reader, the world of Fen won’t leave you. That is Johnson’s power as a writer—she creates a dark, self-aware world that feels heavy and gray and covered in mist.
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We Have Met the Maelstrom, and It Is Us: Dean Rader’s Self-Portrait as a Wikipedia Entry

  • Barbara Berman
  • May 5, 2017
Umbrellas are flimsy shelters from the maelstrom, and Rader keeps going because he can’t stop.
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Inequality Is Everyone’s Problem: The Broken Ladder by Keith Payne

  • Bradley Babendir
  • May 4, 2017
Inequality, in Payne’s eyes, is massively detrimental to everyone in unequal societies, and everyone needs to know it.
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The Whimsy and Discipline of Anne Garréta’s Not One Day

  • Sebastian Sarti
  • May 2, 2017
If people cannot be captured, if “there are only erasures,” then might as well seek them in elisions, where their potential remains.
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A Full-Throated Cry from a Clarion: Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan

  • Katharine Coldiron
  • May 1, 2017
We seem to be floating in a weird soup of truthiness and alternative facts. Perhaps the state of American life explains the explosive power of The Book of Joan, or perhaps it’s the other way around; perhaps, at last, American life is ready for Lidia Yuknavitch.
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Marie Howe Is Magic: Reading Magdalene

  • Jeannine Hall Gailey
  • April 28, 2017
Howe’s Magdalene is ambitious in its reach and strangely timely, as American society has swung to the right and, in the process, against the tide of equality for women.
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Jessa Crispin Can’t Do It Alone in Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto

  • Nina Sparling
  • April 27, 2017
Crispin’s writing strikes a tone that at times parallels neoconservative—even alt-right—pundits: commentary peppered with political injunctions, not criticism.
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A Portrait of the Writing Process: Durga Chew-Bose’s Too Much and Not the Mood

  • Anisse Gross
  • April 26, 2017
Chew-Bose approaches the word essay less as a noun and more as a verb.
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Only Patricia Lockwood Could Get Away with Priestdaddy

  • Eliza Smith
  • April 25, 2017
As we know from her poetry, Lockwood’s humor can shape-shift into something else entirely, something quite moving.
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The Teenage Girl in All of Us: Last Sext by Melissa Broder

  • Edward Derby
  • April 21, 2017
Last Sext captures a youthful, hard, myth-informed, sleep deprived, aroused, spiritually searching, self-loathing worldview embraced by many of the young women in our lives.
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