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A Reign of Silence
13+ hour, 43+ min ago (202+ words) Queen by Birgitta Trotzig. Translated by Saskia Vogel. Archipelago Books, 2026. 168 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org This careful, thrilling novel is apparently a minor work in Trotzig’s bibliography. Queen was originally bundled with two other “tales” in a book about failures…...
Only a Place Like This
16+ hour, 13+ min ago (81+ words) Chip Rossetti reviews “Baghdad Noir,” edited by Samuel Shimon and featuring writing by Ahmed Saadawi, Ali Bader, and Roy Scranton. Chip RossettiNov 21, 2018 Rather than dystopian fiction, it’s more apt to call Ahmed Saadawi’s “Frankenstein in Baghdad” fiction of dystopian times....
Know Your Own Men
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (509+ words) EDGAR ALLAN POE once proclaimed that “the death […] of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.” And, 13 films in, Christopher Nolan tends to agree. His oeuvre is full of well-worn hallmarks: intricate, nonlinear narratives; brilliant,…...
Lights in the Sky
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (109+ words) Brendan Hodges is a film culture writer and critic, known by his friends to ramble about aspect ratios at parties. His work has appeared at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Letterboxd Journal, RogerEbert.com, Inverse, Polygon, and Next Best Picture. Anne…...
Capitalism’s ‘Metabolic Rift’
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (188+ words) Capital from Zero: Reading Marx in the Age of Climate Catastrophe by Kohei Saito. Translated by Brian Bergstrom. Astra House, 2026. 256 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org Genspark subway ad. Courtesy of the author. Fuzzy purple llama sidekick. Courtesy of the author....
Who Owns Women Detectives?
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (507+ words) Nancy Drew felt electric in a way I couldn’t explain. She showed me a world organized entirely differently from the one I lived in, one in which a young girl could take risks that paid off, one in which following…...
How a Democratic Republic Dies
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (143+ words) Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer. Basic Books, 2026. 496 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org Juliette Bretan is a researcher and writer, currently finishing her PhD at the University of Cambridge. She works on depictions of Poland in…...
Doing It Wrong
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (153+ words) The Beginnings by Antonio Moresco. Translated by Max Lawton. Deep Vellum Publishing, 2026. 500 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org Too often in The Beginnings, the writing forgoes this kind of momentum for a self-reflexive noodling that, in 2026 at least, feels both obvious…...
To Touch the Music That Touches You
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (503+ words) Bramble by Susan Stewart. University of Chicago Press, 2026. 96 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org PIANO PIANO by Jennifer Clarvoe. Unbound Edition Press, 2026. 100 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org I LIKE TO THINK that music undergirds the mind, a harmony below thought, and…...
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
2+ week, 5+ day ago (230+ words) All of which allows us to begin asking: What of noir’s anticipation? What, in other words, of this historical rehearsal of questions around assigning criminal adjudication to mass calculation? Film noir would hardly merit our attention in this context unless…...