Winter 2014:
Reviews, reflections, conversations.
"Is the small, proverbial brick-and-mortar, difficult-to-market, thoughtfully-made small press book actually the best possible independent art that we have in America?" Patrick McGinty on Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation and the experience of reading a "small press book" from an international, corporate publisher... more
"Watching the first few episodes of the third season of Girls the other night, it occurred to me that Virginia Woolf's last novel, The Years, has a few similarities to the much-debated HBO show. I know. Hear me out..." more
"One of the great powers that people who create have is that authority to say when something ends." Kevin Sampsell, author of This is Between Us, answers Doug Cornett's challenging demands. more
"As China demonstrates, capitalism can always divorce democracy and give us the worst of all worlds: staggering economic inequality with zero political freedoms or legal protections." Jennifer Ruth reviews Slavoj Zizek's Demanding the Impossible. more
Review by Alan Limnis
"If you have ever wished for a concordance of what European artists, writers, composers, and political figures were doing in the last historical moments before the continent descended into the chaos of the Great War, you have it: it is Florian Illies' 1913: The Year Before the Storm." more
Brief reviews of Karen Green's Bough Down and Ben Schott's Schottenfreude. more
Crafted, designed, choreographed, performed.
Art form of the twentieth century.
Stolen licks and backstage passes.
Investigations and lived experience.
Language, pushed.
Invented worlds, invented selves.
Reports from court and field.
