Monthly Archives: February 2022

I was lucky enough to get an advance readers copy of this book from Feminist Press — I follow them on Instagram (their feed is awesome) and they asked if any reviewers or booksellers or bookstagrammers wanted one, and I asked and they sent me one! I was so excited!! I read it immediately, whichContinueContinue reading “Enjoy me among my ruins, Juniper Fitzgerald”

I am very behind on posting, but in the meantime, here’s a review of Jenny Croft’s translation of Olga Tokarczuk’s Books of Jacob that I wrote for the Asymptote blog! I wrote an academic essay about the novel a year ago, thinking about it in relation to her other novel, Flights, and how both ofContinueContinue reading “Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk”

One of the first books that I read this year was Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, which is every bit as incredible as people say, a marvelously intimate and absolutely immersive history that is also a powerful work of theory that argues that young Black women in 20th century America were radicals dreaming ofContinueContinue reading “Generations, by Lucille Clifton”