Anja Kampmann

About the Sea

The horizon is the concern here the

distance applying color the bright crackling

of surfaces of light and the spreading

of the light as it surges the... Read More »

IRISES AND GRASSHOPPER

Client in a house of courtesans, tableau of masculine and feminine. The irises lie back, languorous, dark pink at the centers and lighter at limbs. The grasshopper, in his armor, grips... Read More »

Maxine Swann

Two riveting scenes frame Zadie Smith’s exciting and unsettling new novel NW, recently shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. In the first, Leah,... Read More »

Carmen María Machado

Junot Díaz’s This is How You Lose Her as a Confessional Text

The confessional text—either an author baring his own soul, or a... Read More »