Familiar Conditions: On Jim Moore’s “Enter” - Cleveland Review of Books
When an ordinary observation of life teeters into the mundane, we find ourselves in a parking garage.| Cleveland Review of Books
Madame madame in memory of all America shrub flag line bangs wind The post from “Deadheading” appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books.| Cleveland Review of Books
They do not have a next stop. They just have to die now. The post Garage Rock and Grand Rapids: An Interview with Natasha Stagg appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books.| Cleveland Review of Books
One has to reckon with a postmodern condition of meaninglessness and feeling of being too late to the party. The post Less Chatter, More Action: On Alexandre Kojève’s “Kant” appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books.| Cleveland Review of Books
His books have prophesied dooms big and small for forty years now, much to the annoyance of our century's chummy optimists and milquetoast novelists obsessed with their own private misery and campus politics. The post Tiny Apocalypses: On László Krasznahorkai’s “Herscht 07769” appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books.| Cleveland Review of Books
And my kids have food, whatever they want. The post from “Hurricane Envy” appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books.| Cleveland Review of Books
Men in these books are under siege by a series of emasculating forces, which I have loosely narrowed down to an unholy trinity: cancellation, the body, and the father. The post Into the Manosphere—in Manuscripts appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books.| Cleveland Review of Books
Writers, like lone gunmen, are compulsive worldbuilders. They write their own past, present, and future. DeLillo has described himself as a man in a small room. The post Twelve Bullets, Four Appendices, and Six Exhibits: On Don DeLillo’s “Libra” appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books.| Cleveland Review of Books
He beamed like he was telling me he wrote for a living, like that exists. The post from “Sea, Poison” appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books.| Cleveland Review of Books
When an ordinary observation of life teeters into the mundane, we find ourselves in a parking garage.| Cleveland Review of Books
It refashions some of the individualist precepts of the genre to craft a collective narrative of the mid to late century Black publishing community. The post When Chloe Met Toni: On Dana A. Williams’ “Toni at Random” appeared first on Cleveland Review of Books.| Cleveland Review of Books
Shadow Ticket perhaps traces, through the suppleness of form, the attitudes and semiotics of pre-emergent fascism.| Cleveland Review of Books
To engage in efforts to reform our pseudo-reality, from El Akkad's point of view, is to play along with a pretense and, in a sense, to validate a sham. He refuses.| Cleveland Review of Books
My aim is more modest: To present a conceptual, Marxist, natural-historical vantage upon the emergence of capital.| Cleveland Review of Books
McKinley, shot, entombed over in Canton while Garfield, / shot prior, in Cleveland / the statue paid for by women and children / inborder / outborder| Cleveland Review of Books
The Cleveland Review of Books is a magazine that showcases Midwestern writers and concerns alongside, and in dialogue with, writing from around the world.| Cleveland Review of Books
Zeavin’s book tracks the various ways that American mothers have been pathologized as “more” or “less” than the measured standard as prescribed by the psy-ences. And in doing so, she questions why the “total” or “pure” mother should be the standard at all.| Cleveland Review of Books
Perhaps what will have been most precious in this corpus—and the experiences it continues to grant those who encounter it—are the intimations of cosmic connection tending toward a truly new and radical political mysticism still to come.| Cleveland Review of Books
