Defoe and the Distance to Utopia
In Defoe’s Captain Singleton, published a year later, the eponymous pirate comes back home with new notions of equality and communal property. Indeed, as Defoe teaches us, the highest ideals…
Queer Readings of Rebecca
video by trade movies podcast
Dismantling the Mother Shelf: Expanding Our Thinking About Women’s Stories of Parenthood
When it comes to the Mother Shelf, it’s tempting to shrug our collective shoulders and say, Well, that’s just how book marketing works. But the uncomfortable truth is that publishers,…
AI Threatens Literary Translation
The etymology of the word translation—“to carry across”—conjures an image of physical labor. It is deeply relational, requiring at least two bodies, those of an author and of the person…
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
BY Olga Tokarczuk. translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Danzy Senna’s absurdist novel of a sitcom about race
Mermaids (novel)
a 1986 coming-of-age novel by American writer Patty Dann
I Am a Truck
by Michelle Winters
Decolonize the Novel: Writing Against Western Strictures of Realism
In 2022 my debut novel, Border Less, was published in North America (7.13 Books) and South Asia (HarperCollins India), two spaces of diasporic life and aesthetic legacies that my fiction…
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings.
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.