Or, the newsletter in which I conclude that time is a flat circle.
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This Month In Books: The Book Is an Escape Tool
Sometimes telling a story is the only way to escape it.
This Month In Books: ‘One Degree Is About the Uncanny’
This month’s books newsletter is suspended in a state of anticipation.
This Month in Books: ‘I Don’t Want To Become a Giant Insect!’
This month’s books newsletter is a bodily affair.
This Month in Books: ‘The Minor Figure Yields to the Chorus’
I’m reading this book right now called “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.” It’s a recursive story-within-a-story sort of thing, and it’s giving me nightmares.
This Month In Books: Botanize Your Past To Save the Future
This month’s books newsletter is overflowing with regional fiction, travel writing … and retro-botany.
This Month In Books: The Anxiety of No Influence
This month’s books newsletter has a lot to say about pasts and futures, and how lineages stretch across time.
This Month In Books: ‘This Is Really Not What I Want To Be Reading’
This month’s books newsletter is jam-packed with scammers, censors, and … other books.
This Month In Books: ‘How Thick Was the Cane?’ and Other Questions About Things
This month’s books newsletter is all about things. As in stuff, objects. Because, as Heike Geissler says, “It’s because of all the things that are here… that you’re here in the first place.”
This Month in Books: ‘How Do We Stay the Right Distance Apart?’
At first glance, there’s a pretty stark divide in this month’s books newsletter.