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An illustration from Vice<\/em>\u2019s Fiction issue, which featured an excerpt from Rachel Cusk\u2019s Transit<\/i>\u2014see what we did there?<\/p><\/div>\n

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The 2016\u00a0Vice<\/em> Fiction issue<\/a> is the best literary magazine I\u2019ve seen this year. Maybe I\u2019m biased. It includes new (and very good) work from a bunch of Paris Review<\/em> writers, namely Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Ottessa Moshfegh, Rachel Cusk, Tim Parks, Christine Smallwood, Deb Olin Unferth, and Benjamin Nugent\u2014plus our former web editor Thessaly La Force. Oh, and the whole issue is edited by Plimpton Prize winner Amie Barrodale. But it\u2019s not just the stories themselves. I also love the interior art direction\u2014with literal photo illustrations of each story, all in what you might call the Vice<\/em> house style. It screams sincerity, and it pays respect. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel Cusk\u2019s novel Transit<\/em>, which we excerpted last summer<\/a>, is out next week. Like its predecessor, Outline<\/em>, it comprises several long, fluid, exactingly rendered conversations. Saying more feels like window dressing, and I worry I\u2019m making it sound like My Dinner with Andre<\/em>, but here goes. Recently divorced, the narrator\u2019s upheaval has led her to a state of social alertness (not to say vulnerability) that makes others eager to confide in her, to try out hidden versions of themselves. The feeling is of swimming, with blissful immersion, through hours of watery talk. It\u2019s hard to describe a novel like this without making them sound \u201cquiet\u201d or \u201cslight,\u201d but Transit <\/em>is neither\u2014people speak and people listen, and it is good. In one of the many passages I earmarked, a man explains\u00a0the elaborate, concerted hunting process of \u201ca shoal of Salukis\u201d as they track birds of prey: \u201cIt suggested that the ultimate fulfillment of a conscious being lay not in solitude but in a shared state so intricate and cooperative it might almost be said to represent the entwining of two selves.\u201d You could think of Transit <\/em>as the pursuit of that shared state. In its fidelity to the long talk\u2014to the sense of permeation that comes with a lively exchange\u2014it argues that conversation is the ideal vehicle for the sublime. \u2014Dan Piepenbring\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ever since I read Christine Lincoln\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s Necessary to Remember When Telling a Story<\/a>,\u201d from our\u00a0Winter issue<\/a>, I\u2019ve been after more of her. I finally got my hands on her debut collection of short fiction\u2014Sap Rising<\/a><\/em>, from 2002\u2014and it\u2019s unlike anything I\u2019ve read recently. In each story, Lincoln delves into the mind of a different child from the rural South, writing of the moments, however big or small, that change everything they once thought to be true and infallible: the death of a baby or a deer on the roadside; the story a stranger tells after dark.\u00a0It\u2019s the subtle mysticism I admire most about Lincoln\u2019s work, which often feels enchanted: in \u201cA Hook Will Sometimes Keep You,\u201d a child\u2019s limbs become invisible; in the title story, \u201cwanting\u201d slithers up a young woman\u2019s belly and throat, as if to choke her. \u201cWishes,\u201d though, is my favorite. A girl wishes her father dead only to worry over the trees that have heard her pray aloud: \u201cShe knew somehow that the trees still held all her secrets, was afraid they would whisper them back as the wind shook loose their leaves.\u201d \u2014Caitlin Youngquist<\/strong><\/p>\n

What with the transition of power just days away, I\u2019m interested in stories of achievable resistance. Thus Mark Sundeen\u2019s new book,\u00a0The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today\u2019s America<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Within are the stories of extremist homesteaders, with their voluntary impoverishment, their Luddite refusal of the military-industrial complex in its many guises. They resist the reach of electoral politics by going\u00a0totally\u00a0<\/em>off the grid. Sundeen visits families in Missouri, Detroit, and Montana who\u2019ve founded intentional communities that hope to make the world a better place by encouraging secession from the American economy. Immersing himself in these collectives, Sundeen traces their historical precedents: Quaker customs, Gandhi\u2019s spindle, even punk rock. He relays the homesteaders\u2019 stories with fierce curiosity and empathy, which makes\u00a0The Unsettlers\u00a0<\/em>an enlightening read: the book resonates because Sundeen lets these eccentrics and their lifestyles speak for themselves. It\u2019s exceptional reporting on a topic that we\u2019d all be wise to familiarize ourselves with, especially in the shadow of an indefatigably evil administration.\u00a0\u2014Daniel Johnson<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tonight I\u2019m attending a discussion at the Strand on Simone de Beauvoir, \u201cWoman as Other, Woman as Lover<\/a>.\u201d Even if The Second Sex <\/em>remains widely read, many feminists regard Beauvoir as a \u201ctheoretical dinosaur,\u201d as the scholar Toril Moi put it. So I was happy to chance upon an old collection of interviews with Beauvoir\u2014Alice Schwarzer\u2019s\u00a0Simone de Beauvoir Today: Conversations 1972\u20131982<\/a>\u2014<\/em>that lets readers observe how her relationship to feminism, existentialism, and socialism shifted over the course of her lifetime, developing alongside her; it contradicts all claims of her evolutionary demise. Sure, Beauvoir\u2019s not perfect: she struggles with\u00a0the female body and tends to glorify maleness. (Try not to turn to her for advice on childbirth.) But these interviews show that she was attuned to the rhetoric of power\u2014yes, above questions of identity\u2014in a way that we can still learn from, especially in our current political context, as the GOP is poised to defund Planned Parenthood\u2014surely mere prologue to a broader effort to undermine women\u2019s rights. In times like these, there\u2019s great value in returning to the conversation that Beauvoir and Schwarzer so crucially opened.\u00a0\u2014Madeline Medeiros Pereira<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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