If you want to observe the advancing rigor mortis of American capitalism, you could do worse than take a flight. This is not news. In Dr. David Dao, dragged so violently from that United flight, we even have an icon for the familiar, dehumanizing onslaught of corporate contempt.
Read moreAmelia Gray's 'Isadora' is a heavenly celebration of women in charge of their bodies →
In this era of history commandeered by toxic masculinity with delusions of superhumanity, there’s a lot to be said for remembering the truth of the body, particularly the female and otherwise marginalized bodies that are so likely to be written out of the story.
Read moreThe Ice by Laline Paull review – allegory in the Arctic →
“Where is the fiction about climate change?” Amitav Ghosh asked in these pages last year. It’s a good question: glance at most publishers’ catalogues and you would never know that humanity was facing the greatest challenge of its existence.
Read morePallacorda, or What the Hell Has Happened in Mexico →
A review of Álvaro Enrigue's Sudden Death
And so the world is one long struggle, and the bad guy always wins and steals the spoils. Yet we have this novel, a work so beautiful it might take your breath away.
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