Turn the Page: New Releases this Week (5/4)

May springs with a bounty of good reads. From local author debuts to sci-fi epics, memoirs of motherhood and intimacy to concise histories and conversations about race. Make room on your shelves for these exquisite picks out in the world now. Olympus, Texas: A Novel by Stacey Swann *Virtual Event 5/5* "A gripping debut that takes … Continue reading Turn the Page: New Releases this Week (5/4)

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Chris Kraus's Torpor, originally published in 2006, was recently republished by semiotext(e). In Null and Void, Becca Rothfeld insists that Torpor  "is not the festival of negativity we deserved but the festival of negativity we needed in those—and these—artificially untroubled times." Though she deems the novel "depressing to a fault," she argues for the importance of negativity and negative emotion … Continue reading weekend reading