Carmen Maria Machado’s subject is, first and foremost, the trauma of two years of invisible abuse leveled by a partner of the same sex – but it is also, importantly, the silence of such abuse in the archive; this document is an act against that silence. Machado is an author who understands herself and knows… Continue reading

Nicholas Carr’s Superbloom, this incredible, expansive treatise (for that is the only word that seems to fittingly describe its scale and precision) is a revelation. Drawing from history, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, computer science, and a host of other disciplines, Carr brilliantly constructs a history of human communication – that is indeed, ultimately, an indictment… Continue reading