Black Bag
A failed actor paid to sit in a leather bag, drawing more notice hidden than his face ever earned.
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.
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.
Helen of Nowhere
A disgraced professor's self-knowledge restaged as evidence, ending in a shape borrowed from every story about men like him.
The Mulai
An archaeologist's report passed off as ethnography, compiling a whole society out of one man's failure to tell people apart.
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Prison sentences spoken as university degrees, returning each political abstraction to the people required to live inside it.
South
Political injury reassigned as private failure, each record altered before it can testify, until only the safer account survives in print.
The Watching Monad
A colleague's fear read as desire, alternating narration turning workplace access into administratively easy pursuit.
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.
Foster
A summer of care staged as rescue, ending in a child carrying a measure her own family need never meet.
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
A house's debt to the devil staged as inheritance, ending in a granddaughter who lives outside its doctrine.
Bury Your Dead
A roadside depot grinds animal carcasses while human corpses wait on a morgue van that never starts. Dignity falls to whoever will carry a body.