The Franklin Stove “offers a multifaceted history of Franklin’s invention. Equal parts biography, design history, and environmental history, the book proves its worth by being highly relevant to today’s climate crisis.” Continue reading The Franklin Stove: an Uninitended American Revolution, by Joyce E. Chaplin @ NYJB
Hypochondria by Will Rees is his attempt to chronicle his condition and an exploration of the phenomenon known as hypochondria. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Hypochondria, by Will Rees
“Love and death, suffering and addiction, family and displacement, all become interwoven into a commentary on the present intractable mess. Duong’s poetry assesses the situation with a jaundiced eye, yet his perspective also includes a stubborn hopefulness.” Continue reading Wednesday Poetry Corner: At the End of the World There Is a Pond: Poems, by Steven Duong @ NYJB
Singed can be seen as a chimera and a rhizomatic desiring-machine. Continue reading CRITICAL APPRAISALS: RADICAL VOICES: CASCELLA, ROBERTSON, BROSSARD, Part 3
Despite the fakeness of authenticity, can one find authenticity in artifice? Continue reading CRITICAL APPRAISALS: RADICAL VOICES: CASCELLA, ROBERTSON, BROSSARD, Part 2
Avant Desire is an anthology of fiction and non-fiction by and about Nicole Brossard. Brossard is an out lesbian, political radical, and creator of various literary experiments. Continue reading CRITICAL APPRAISALS: RADICAL VOICES: CASCELLA, ROBERTSON, BROSSARD
Annihilation does provoke and offend and dazzle. Continue reading Annihilation, by Michel Houellebecq @ NYJB
Micro-review of Midjourney: “It produces art like Thomas Kinkade on Ambien.” Continue reading Critic’s Notebook: Casanova, a ballet by Kenneth Tindall
Like all good romances, Good Women displays the inherent decency of people. Continue reading Espresso Shots: The Good Women of Fudi, by Lui Hong
Mojave Ghost by Forrest Gander is a heroic quest against the inevitable challenges of loss, both personal and environmental. Continue reading Wednesday Poetry Corner: Mojave Ghost, by Forrest Gander
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