The Wax Child
Women who really do work magic, condemned by a court that manufactures its evidence anyway.
Notes on Books
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Essay
Business Continues: Ten Novels and the Speed of Harm
Violence converted into procedure across ten novels, from a Brazilian slaughterhouse to a predator whose vocabulary outlives him.
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Explanation Under Pressure
An event occurs without becoming motive. Explanation is demanded, but the act remains without justification.
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Reading Queer Life
How queer life in literature is shaped by scrutiny, secrecy, attachment, violence and memory across the archive.
To the East of the East
A husband gone to Macau under another man's name, explaining himself in letters that reach his wife too late.
The Employees
An investigation into strange objects aboard a generational ship escalates into a labour dispute the organisation acknowledges and buries simultaneously.
Paradais
A gardener paid in rum to hear out the boy next door, turning a nightly fantasy into a plan.
The Renovation
A prison cell behind a bathroom wall serves an exile her country back, and it dissolves on the way out.
This Is Not Miami
Twelve accounts from Veracruz move between reportage, testimony and rumour, where the version of an event decides what happens next.
The Things We Never Say
A history teacher plans his death in private, undone by a disclosure that rewrites the marriage behind it.
How to Make a Woman
Two accounts of the same fifteen years, measuring what one woman inherits against what the other improvises across the road.
Butcher's Crossing
A young man bankrolls a buffalo hunt to find himself in nature, and finds a machine that pays nobody.
Black Bag
A failed actor paid to sit in a leather bag, drawing more notice hidden than his face ever earned.
All Them Dogs
Violence taken up as courtship in West Dublin, turning every order from a lover into a form of love.
Hurricane Season
A woman's murder narrated as folklore, exposing the contempt that made her killable long before anyone raised a knife.