Unsettling Chapters: Madness
For me, the most unsettling type of literature deals with mental illness or cognitive degeneration. Internal threats are always more terrifying than those coming from outside. Self-inflicted wounds cut...
View ArticleReview: Kinder Than Solitude
Kinder Than Solitude Yiyun Li This is a book that will break your heart. From the uncomfortable opening scene at the crematorium, across continents and decades, this is a longitudinal gut-punch of a...
View ArticleReview: Insatiable
Insatiable Asa Akira I had high hopes for Asa Akira’s memoir. I imagine being a porn star makes for an interesting life, and I was hoping to learn about the person, not the persona (which is already...
View ArticleReview: Grotesque
Natsuo Kirino Grotesque This is a book that lives up to its name. Beauty and deformity drip from every page in this transgressive thriller. It put me in mind of Flannery O’Connor, not in the aspect of...
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