April 2022 | Reads & Reviews
Best of what I've been reading, from essays to short stories to interviews, April 2022 edition.
[For Looming] Short Story “Roosiaed”
The short story "Roosiaed" by Karola Karlson was published in Looming 5/2022.
[For Sirp] Review of Weather by Jenny Offill
Jenny Offill's novel Weather asks how to survive on the pre-climate-apocalypse planet and proposes apathetic self-irony as one potent analgesic.
All Things Nice Hide in Shadows – Review of Checkout 19
A friend recently told me that she was participating in a translation contest. Jokingly, I suggested that the organizers should have picked a chapter from Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett as the source text. My friend smiled, slightly disconcerted. That’s right. That was the book. It isn’t only the tirelessly poetic and ornamental prose – […]
March 2022 | Reads & Reviews
Best of what I've been reading, from essays to short stories to interviews, March 2022 edition.
February 2022 | Reading & Writing
Best of what I've been reading, from essays to short stories to interviews, February 2022 edition.
January 2022 | Reading & Writing
Best of what I've been reading, from essays to short stories to interviews, January 2022 edition.
2021 Favorites: Books, Essays & Other Writing
Best of 2021: recommendations on books, essays, and other literary works.
September 2021 | Reading & Writing
August 2021 Reading Recommendations July 2021 Reading Recommendations June 2021 Reading Recommendations Essays, reviews, articles #Magazine #Culture #Fashion | Purple Magazine issue 36, Mexico City The best magazines are usually the ones without much commercial interest + the ones that appear quarterly. The Purple Magazine published a new issue biannually and the quality of research, […]
[For Müürileht] Existentialism and Ecstasy: Mushrooming as a Recreational Act
On John Cage’s mycophilia, the ecstasy of losing oneself in forest-wandering, and the Post-Soviet heritage of mushrooming. in Estonian. Published in the September 2021 issue of Estonian hedonist-intellectual magazine Müürileht.