Issue 1.2

  HACHETTE, MAY 2022, 272 PP. Advice: if you ever talk to Kim Gordon, don’t ask her what it’s like to be a “girl in a band.” “The often-repeated question throughout my career as a musician made me feel disrupted, a freak or that we are all the same,” she notes on Instagram when announcing her new book, a coedited essay collection called This Woman’s Work. “Hopefully this book begins an unraveling of the myth

  YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, MARCH 2022, 600 PP. In a hair under fifty years, American women’s history was born, died, and is being reborn as something else. Call it the history of gender if you like, or the history of sexuality and the body. What it means to be a woman today has become uncertain, fraught—and maybe, just maybe, more interesting. A case in point: in the recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearings to elevate Judge

  EUROPA EDITIONS, MAY 2022, 224 PP. Fuyuko Irie is a thirty-four-year-old freelance proofreader from Japan. One of her most defining characteristics, in her opinion, is that she likes to go for a walk once a year on Christmas Eve, her birthday. “But I was sure that no one else could comprehend what made this fun,” she admits, “and I never mentioned it to anyone before. I had no friends to talk to on a

  LITTLE, BROWN; APRIL 2022, 320 PP. In a late scene in Chantal V. Johnson’s novel Post-traumatic, Vivian, the central character, is confronted by two police officers knocking at her door. She’s a thirty-something Black and Latinx lawyer on hiatus; a concerned family member has called the cops to perform a “wellness check.” Calling the cops is one of the worst things you can do to a distressed person of color, especially one who happens