Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta...
Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta, Thomas Lin, ed.,The MIT Press, 2018.Accessible and essential coverage of today's challenging, speculative, cutting-edge...
View ArticleRyoko Sekiguchi takes the letters Fernando Pessoa wrote his would-be fiancée...
Ryoko Sekiguchi, adagio ma non troppo, Trans. by Lindsay Turner, Les Figues Press, 2018.adagio ma non troppo dossierRyoko Sekiguchi takes the letters Fernando Pessoa wrote his would-be fiancée Ophelia...
View ArticleAnne Kawala - a prose narrative continually interrupted by charts, collages,...
Anne Kawala, Screwball, Trans. by Kit Schluter. Canarium Books, 2018.excerpt (pdf)An experimental epic poem or novel, SCREWBALL (the indispensable deficit) follows a huntress-gatheress from home in the...
View ArticleAna Cristina Cesar - one of Brazil’s best known avant-garde poets. After her...
Ana Cristina César, At Your Feet, Trans. by Brenda Hillman, Helen Hillman, and Sebastião Edson Macedo, Parlor Press, 2018.excerptAna Cristina Cesar (1952-1983) has posthumously become one of Brazil’s...
View ArticleLaura Riding - an oddity that is just short of being a masterpiece, wherein...
Laura Riding, Experts Are Puzzled, ed. by George Fragopoulos, 2018. [1930.]A nearly impossible text to categorize—is it a collection of short stories, prose poems, manifestos or something else...
View ArticleJennifer Natalya Fink - an imaginative, erotic rethinking of Bhopal’s...
Jennifer Natalya Fink, Bhopal Dance, Fiction Collective 2, 2018.https://www.jennifernatalyafink.com/Bhopal Dance is an imaginative, erotic rethinking of Bhopal’s disaster—and our own. On the night of...
View ArticleJeff McMahon's performances sear us in a fever dream of poetics, politics and...
Jeff McMahon, Six Monologues 1990 – 2007, NoPassport Press, 2018.read it at Google BooksSIX MONOLOGUES 1990-2007 by Jeff McMahon collects six of McMahon's works that span across socio-political, queer...
View ArticleIshmael Houston-Jones - He is a choreographer, author, performer, teacher,...
Ishmael Houston-Jones, FAT and other stories: some writing about sex, Yonkers International Press, 2018. www.ishmaelhouston-jones.com/“I’ve been telling some of you for decades to trust me that Ishmael...
View ArticleMark Samuels - Cryptic and potent languages, bizarre cults, mysteries that...
Mark Samuels, Prophecies and Dooms, Ulymas Press, 2018.https://marksamuels.wordpress.com/A collection of essays on authors of classic weird fiction.A contemporary author, Mark Samuels writes about the...
View ArticleSteve Anwyll - In wakeful, rhythmic prose, Anwyll writes a mirror for our...
Steve Anwyll, Welfare, Tyrant Books, 2019.excerptWelfare is wholly made up of four-line paragraphs and has a cadence that is uniquely its own. A high school student leaves his parents’ home to live on...
View ArticleBrad Phillips - 'Essays and Fictions' navigates the never-ending work of...
Brad Phillips, Essays and Fictions, Tyrant Books, 2019.excerptBrad Phillips' collection of short stories adeptly walks a very thin line between taboo and propriety, with rigorous self-awareness and...
View ArticleAlex Cecchetti - the post-mortem investigation of the victim into his own...
Alex Cecchetti, Tamam Shud, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw + Sternberg Press,...
View ArticleJenny Hval - At its simplest, this debut novel by the Oslo-based musician...
Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot, Trans. by Marjam Idriss, Verso Books, 2018.excerptA lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imageryJo is in a strange new...
View ArticleJames Krendel-Clark - This essay takes the point of view that the ruinance...
James Krendel-Clark, The Future of the God-Hallucination: Reflections on the Nietzschean Lifestyle-Brand, Voidfront Press, 2018. This essay (in the authentic sense of the word, an...
View ArticleAll That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo 1963-2018 - the...
All That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo 1963-2018, Ed. by Ian Monk & Daniel Levin Becker, McSweeney's, 2018.Since its inception in Paris in 1960, the OuLiPo―ouvroir de littérature...
View ArticleRoss Goodwin - first novel written by a car. Rooted in the traditions of...
Ross Goodwin, 1 the Road, Jean Boite, 2018.https://rossgoodwin.com/1 the Road is a book written using a car as a pen.Ross Goodwin is not a poet. As a prominent Artificial Intelligence creator, he...
View ArticleDamien Rudd & Cécile Coulon - Everyone’s favourite and ironically depressing...
Damien Rudd & Cécile Coulon, Triste Tropique, Topographies of Sadness, Jean Boîte, 2018.Triste Tropique, Topographies of Sadness is the first atlas that matches our darkest feelings. Started on the...
View ArticleValerio Olgiati - landscape living. Our home is far away from the next town....
Valerio Olgiati, Villa Além, Name Books, 2015.For many years, my wife Tamara and I had been searching for a place for which we could leave our current home in the Swiss mountains on social, cultural...
View ArticleRemedios Varo - an engagement with mysticism and magic, a breakdown of the...
Remedios Varo, Letters, Dreams & Other Writings, Trans. byMargaret Carson, Wakefield Press, 2018.excerptexcerpt 2excerpt 3While the reputation of Remedios Varo (1908-63) the surrealist painter is...
View ArticlePORNOTERRORISM - Essays and interventions by seventeen international artists...
PORNOTERRORISM / De-Aestheticising Power, ed. by Louis Armand & Jaromir Lelek, Litteraria Pragnesia, 2015.downloadEssays and interventions by seventeen international artists & theorists, on...
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