Edward Austin Hall
Shining, Appy ‘People’—Silvia Park’s Luminous Transpositions
Park animates the tug-of-war between pareidolia and paraphilia that would reasonably beset a society populated by androids who can pass for human, humanoid robots that cannot, some humans whose bionic enhancements make them more machine than flesh, and others whose foibles signal a nature too human for comfort.
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
As naturalist Sy Montgomery writes in her nonfiction book The Soul of an Octopus, “To many people, an octopus is...
Pearl Cleage: Fragile Bodies on a Fragile Planet
The thing that strikes me more and more as I get older is how we spend so much time and energy and bluster building cities, having wars, dominating and insulting each other, when all the time, we are living inside these fragile bodies that have to exist on a fragile planet in the company of other fragile beings and unknown viruses.