Rebecca Saltzman
- Monster Mash
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, July 2023, 354 pp. To make art in a monstrous world, must we embrace the monstrous? Lauren Elkin’s newest book, Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, is a meditation on this question. Elkin takes her title from Jenny Offill’s 2014 novel, Dept. of Speculation, in
VOLUME 2: ISSUE 4
WINTER 2024
- Humor
Mrs. Dalloway realizes she left her wallet at home. Dorian Gray keeps his skin youthful by using a daily SPF, and also by having a cursed painting in the closet. Clytemnestra obsesses over true crime podcasts. Lady Macbeth gets period stains out of her favorite outfit. Finding himself transformed
VOLUME 1: ISSUE 1
MARCH/APRIL 2022
- Humor
The ghost of crypto futures Your Facebook posts from 2010 reappear for everyone to see A cursed mirror that pitches you MLM products Mitch McConnell All the phone calls you’ve been putting off The bras you stopped wearing during the pandemic are coming for revenge
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MAY/JUNE 2022
- Bad Education
BALLANTINE BOOKS, JULY 2022, 368 PP. IF ART ALLOWS humans to touch the sublime, then one can’t help but ask where we went so wrong with art school, that expensive immersion in the petty and profane. Two recent debut novels recreate the world of visual and literary arts programs replete
VOLUME 2: ISSUE 2
SUMMER 2023