Shon Faye Embraces Love’s Contradictions
In the clear-eyed and sophisticated memoir Love In Exile, British journalist Shon Faye mines from her life and the past to interrogate why we’re denied, or we deny, love.
Sam Franzini
Sam Franzini is a writer based in Washington, DC. His journalism has appeared in NYLON, Shondaland, Clash Magazine, Hey Alma, and The Brooklyn Rail, and his fiction has appeared in After Dinner Conversation and Cosmoram.
‘The Story of ABBA’ Neglects to Tell the Story of ABBA
In a typical biography, I’d permit ten pages that are completely unrelated to the subject. The Story of ABBA has about 100 such pages.
‘Great Black Hope’ Prods Black Affluence
In Great Black Hope, Rob Franklin’s debut novel, we have a Black protagonist able to hide behind his finances, even when he slips.
Sophie Gilbert Excavates Millennial Misogyny’s Buildup
Sophie Gilbert’s critique of misogyny in the 1990s and 2000s, Girl on Girl, would be disheartening but for the iconoclastic and subversive feminist artists in pop culture.