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From the cover of The Witches<\/i> by Stacy Schiff.<\/p><\/div>\n

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For a brief second, some fifty pages in to The Witches<\/a><\/em>, Stacy Schiff\u2019s history of the Salem witch trials, I almost started to wonder whether any of the accused were guilty. Like, of witchcraft.\u00a0I spent the rest of the book waiting for Stoughton, Hathorne, Cotton Mather, and the other investigators to come to their senses and call the whole thing off. Of course I know better, but her retelling of the trials is so vivid, and resonates so deeply with current events, that the nightmare seems to unfold in real time, its causes obscure, its conclusion impossible to foresee, like a terrifying story you\u2019ve never heard before. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOne cannot reason anymore with the President. One life for the life of thousands. Lies lies lies airplanes. Warlords profit false idols prophet.\u201d Reading Kate Zambreno\u2019s first novel,\u00a0O Fallen Angel<\/a><\/em>, is like getting a dose of electroshock therapy\u2014a galvanizing current of electricity straight into the brain. Written in 2007, in the aftermath of\u00a0September 11\u00a0and in the midst of the second Bush\u2019s presidency,\u00a0O Fallen Angel<\/em>\u00a0was published by Lidia Yuknavitch\u2019s small press Chiasmus the following year; it was fittingly reissued last month, a few days before Trump\u2019s inauguration. The novel is related through three characters\u2019 streams of consciousness: the Valium-popping housewife Mommy, one of literature\u2019s great monsters; her daughter, Maggie, a drug addict who pursues a physical and psychological drive toward death; and Malachi, a street prophet, who seems to foresee, among other events, burning towers.\u00a0O Fallen Angel<\/em>\u00a0is blackly funny and brutal, a radical and clear-sighted antidote for banality and complacency. \u2014Nicole Rudick\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the cover of Wolf Whistle<\/i> by Lewis Nordan.<\/p><\/div>\n

Near the beginning of Lewis Nordan\u2019s\u00a0Wolf Whistle<\/em><\/a>, Solon Gregg walks through the white ghetto in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, while buzzards \u201cslick and black with rainwater sat [on lamp posts] with hunched soldiers and wattled necks like sad old men in dark coats.\u201d The birds stretch as far as the eye can see, thinking of meat and sucking swamp air inside their lungs \u201cto savor the fragrance of loss.\u201d Loss and death, rain, and race are at the heart of this novel\u2014a surrealist, fictionalized telling of Emmett Till\u2019s murder published in 1993. The setting, Arrow Catcher, is an analogue\u00a0for Itta Bena, near where Nordan grew up, and crops up in most of is writing. Nordan was fifteen when Emmitt Till was killed, and he knew the murderers.\u00a0Wolf Whistle\u00a0<\/em>shivers with an epic hum; echoes of the Civil War; the atrocities of murder, rape, and oppression of blacks (in\u00a0Wolf Whistle,\u00a0<\/em>specifically Southern in their horror); the Southern language; my home region\u2019s dark underbelly. Even these buzzards\u2014looking down on Solon, who will later kill \u201cBobo,\u201d Arrow Catcher\u2019s fourteen-year-old visitor from Chicago\u2014are \u201ca part of the glorious history of the South.\u201d Improbably (surrealistically), they\u2019re named after \u201cpast and future governors and senators of the sovereign state of Mississippi.\u201d Some of them, a hundred years old, have actually fed on the meat of Confederate troops. Coming in early as they do in the book, they set up right away the rot underneath the violence that comes later. (Pair with John McElwee\u2019s indispensable\u00a0Oxford American <\/em>essay\u00a0about Nordan, \u201cA House of Crossed Logs<\/a>.\u201d) \u2014Caitlin Love<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the cover of The Portable Veblen<\/i> by Elizabeth McKenzie.<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s been a while since I enjoyed a novel as much as\u00a0I did Elizabeth McKenzie\u2019s\u00a0The Portable Veblen<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0Its premise is one we\u2019ve seen in novels like\u00a0White Noise<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Freedom<\/em>: set a\u00a0dysfunctional family with a vicious desire for tradition\u00a0against\u00a0some sort of institutional crookery that risks the lives of unaware American consumers. In this case, Paul and Veblen are trying to set a date for their wedding, which proves increasingly difficult both as they meet each other\u2019s parents and as Paul\u2019s lifelong neurological research gets purchased by a corrupt pharmaceutical company. What makes\u00a0Veblen<\/em>\u00a0stand out is how thoughtfully McKenzie traces Paul\u2019s and Veblen\u2019s struggles to scenes from\u00a0the quiet, everyday trauma of their youth\u2014day-to-day life with an autistic sibling, the awkward thrill of losing one\u2019s virginity on drugs, being accused of cheating in a science fair.\u00a0Veblen<\/em>\u00a0empathizes with how unprepared we are for the seamless shift when youth folds into expected adulthood, and suggests the only way Paul and Veblen will ever mature enough to reach the altar is by stripping themselves of their upbringing\u2014parental complexes and all. There\u2019s a lovely refrain I kept recalling as I read, a lyric from songwriter Dave Simonett, which seems to get right at\u00a0The Portable Veblen<\/em>\u2019s tragicomic heart: \u201cIt\u2019s a bitch, ain\u2019t it babe, \/ to live while we\u2019re young? \/ I\u2019m crushed that the world turned over \/ so soon.\u201d \u2014Daniel Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before The Cat in the Hat <\/em>cemented his fame, Theodor Seuss Geisel illustrated the dangers of American isolationism in more than four hundred\u00a0images as the chief editorial cartoonist for the New York newspaper\u00a0PM\u00a0<\/em>(1940\u20131948). Thanks to U.C. San Diego\u2019s Dr. Seuss Collection, you can view them online<\/a>. You may recognize \u201cAdolf the Wolf,\u201d the cartoon gaining traction lately as a critique of Trump\u2019s travel ban. A boy and girl sit by their mother, \u201cAmerica First,\u201d as she reads, \u201cand the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones \u2026 but those were\u00a0Foreign Children\u00a0and it didn\u2019t really matter.\u201d Seuss presses this isolationism further in \u201cOur Warm, Warm Cot\u201d: a couple cowers under heaps of bedding as the \u201cGrim Cold Facts\u201d blow frigidly through their window. Viewed today, these lesser-known images draw history close; crucially, they remind us that the distance between the past and present is primarily a matter of memory. \u2014Madeline Medeiros Pereira<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m doing it: I\u2019m reading Robert Caro\u2019s The Years of Lyndon Johnson<\/em><\/a>. I don\u2019t really know why. I think this is a good time to get acquainted with the more obscure levers\u00a0of presidential power, and with those who\u2019ve pulled said levers with a certain ruthless efficiency. Granted, Johnson and Trump have little in common aside from their ambition and the office it led them to, but there is, I\u2019ve noticed, this one thing: both\u00a0men adore their cocks. Don\u2019t all men? I can hear you asking. The answer is no, not like this, anyway\u2014from Caro I\u2019ve learned that in his college years Johnson \u201cwould take his penis in his hand and say: \u2018Well, I\u2019ve gotta take ol\u2019 Jumbo here and give him some exercise. I wonder who I\u2019ll fuck tonight.\u2019 \u201d Pair that little gem\u00a0with, say, Trump\u2019s defense of his penis size last March<\/a>, or the famous 1964 tape of\u00a0Johnson ordering pants\u00a0over the phone, specifying that he needs an extra inch \u201cdown where your nuts hang \u2026 back to my bunghole<\/a>\u201d\u2014and you start to see a nauseous continuity in the presidency. Philip Larkin had it that man hands on misery to man; American presidents, then, send down a special breed of misery, an insatiable penile narcissism that the Oval Office has never been without. \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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