by Katherine Rundell
An excess of ancient superstitions, ill-chosen analogies, and needless asides alongside fine facts
Monthly archives: January 2024
The English Understand Wool
by Helen DeWitt
Can’t help but try my hand at adding to the collection of maltranslations.
As much as I would like to convey small-town life to you across two hundred pages, I wouldn’t have the barbarity to make you suffer through the garrulousness and sly barbs of provincial conversation. Me, … Read more
Multiverses: An Anthology of Alternate Realities
by Preston Grassmann (Editor)
- “Banish” Alastair Reynolds DNF
- “Cracks” Chana Porter ★★★★
- “A Threshold Hypothesis” Jayaprakash Satyamurthy DNF
- “Crunchables” Ian Mcdonald ★★★½
- “Quorum’s Eye” Alvaro Zinos-Amaro ★★★¼
- “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” Paul Di Filippo ★★★
- “Days of Magic, Nights of War” Clive Barker ★★
- “A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel” Ken
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Editors)
- “Kushtuka” Mathilda Zeller ★★★½
- “White Hills” Rebecca Roanhorse ★★★½
- “Navajos Don’t Wear Elk Teeth” Conley Lyons ★★★½
- “Wingless” Marcie R. Rendon ★★★
- “Quantum” Nick Medina ★★★
- “Hunger” Phoenix Boudreau ★★★½
- “Tick Talk” Cherie Dimaline ★★★
- “The Ones Who Killed Us” Brandon Hobson DNF
Un féminisme décolonial
by Françoise Vergès
★★★½
Feminism and Marxism
by Dorothy Ballan
A lot of space is focused on critiquing Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics instead of standing on its own. The antiracism holds up, and the parts about communal social relations that Leslie Feinberg distilled in Transgender Warriors.
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
by Carla Bergman, Nick Montgomery
★★★½
Transgender Warriors
by Leslie Feinberg
Feinberg’s writing is energising and accessible as ever. A resonating history of humanity, and a clear-sighted view of interlocking struggles against the capitalist class.
★★★★★