Any Person Is the Only Self
A generous collection of essays on reading, writing, and the quiet pleasures of literary life.
2024
8 books
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
I finished reading this book more than a week ago and it keeps running loops inside my mind, its eyes glazed over, its arms outstretched before it.
The Alternatives
Four sisters, three PhDs, and a family quietly coming apart.
Nuclear War: A Scenario
A cinematic glimpse at nuclear war that hurtles forward without ever losing sight of the people in its path.
The Repeat Room
In this society of interchangeable robes, telescreens and plastic trays, the machinery of state violence is described with frightening precision.
Intervals
Her mother chose to die and Marianne Brooker documented the process, surreal and mundane as may be, into a perfectly composed essay.
The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast
A singular, mischievous and meticulous artist, carefully unpacked.
All Fours
A novel bursting with desire that mostly goes unconsumed; a midlife crisis in a motel room.
