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“People Collide” Throws Everything You Thought You Knew About Body Swap Stories out the Window
Isle McElroy’s new novel provides a nuanced approach to gender within its body swap premise.
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Dystopian Commentary Bares Its Teeth and Heart in “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself”
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to write a responsible dystopia.
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Queer Desire Is Feral in K-Ming Chang’s Bloody, Spitty “Organ Meats”
Here is an expansive tale of inherited and constructed mythology, queer magic, and gothic girlhood.
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Davey Davis on “X,” True Crime, and the Fantasy of Screwball Comedy
“The thing that gets me about a lot of people’s just criticisms of Fifty Shades of Grey is, as a romance novel, as a ravishment novel, it’s a lot closer to real SM, real sexy pulp, than most.”
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“My Volcano” Is an Abnormal, Bizarre, Exhilarating Novel About a Volcano Suddenly Emerging in Central Park
My Volcano is an abnormal, bizarre, sometimes frustratingly opaque novel — but it’s also one of the most exhilarating ones I’ve read in years.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin on “Manhunt,” Martyrdom, and the Unimportance of Being Valid
“Manhunt is really my attempt to show the utility and the importance of existing in discomfort.”