December 31, 2018
Devils, Unicorns, and Fever Dreams: My 2018 Reading List
As 2018 drew to a close and the literary internet was flooded with “Best of 2018” book lists, I noticed a fair amount of backlash against these lists—namely, that they […]
November 6, 2018
An Interview With Maryse Meijer
Carmen Maria Machado wrote of Maryse Meijer’s Northwood, which comes out this week, “This strange and beautiful novella has everything I want: formal play, myths and fairy tales, the politics […]
October 26, 2017
Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties: The Mad Woman in the Attic and the Abject-Mother-Baby-in-the-Basement
Although not all the stories in Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties reach the accumulative electricity of its first tale, “The Husband Stitch,” this is not uncommon in […]