Marie-Helene Bertino’s ‘Parakeet’ Is A Funny And Devastating Novel About Trauma
It’s a week before her wedding when a bride’s dead grandmother visits her in the form of a ghostly parakeet and asks her what the internet is. It’s the last…
Motherhood Is A Horror Story In ‘The Need’
Helen Phillips’ new novel “The Need” opens on a mother in peril, “crouched in front of the mirror in the dark, clinging to them. The baby in her right arm,…
This Year’s Hot New Self-Care Regimen: Sleeping Through The Whole Thing
It’s the summer of 2018, and America seems sapped of hope. We swap self-care techniques and links to “Abolish ICE” petitions with equal desperation. Sometimes, as Tina Fey suggested on…
Amid All The Talk Of Incels, A Solitary Woman’s Story
A perky face looks out from the pink-and-blue cover of the American translation of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman, originally published in 2016 in Japan, where its publisher says it…
VISUAL SIGNATURES: featuring Charles Lilly
VISUAL SIGNATURES is a Public Service Announcement (PSA) that highlights a vast cultural array of visual artists who share with viewers their visions of creating art and the rewards of…