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Hazel Jane Plante. Photo: Agatha K. Courtesy of Metonymy Press.<\/p><\/div>\n

Just as there are an infinite number of stories to be told, there are an infinite number of ways to tell a story. Take Hazel Jane Plante\u2019s Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)<\/em><\/a> as case in point. When the narrator\u2019s best friend dies, she decides to write an encyclopedia about her friend\u2019s favorite television show. While Plante\u2019s novel takes the form of an A-to-Z guide to the fictional one-season TV series Little Blue<\/em>, it also tells the story of a queer trans woman mourning the loss of her straight trans best friend, for whom she felt an overwhelming, unrequited love. Through her thorough examination of the show, the narrator creates a beautiful, holistic homage to Vivian\u2019s life. At the end of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)<\/em>, I found myself in awe of the book\u2019s author. Not only has Plante imagined an incredibly complex TV show from scratch, she\u2019s written an entire encyclopedia about said show, and somehow told a deeply heartfelt story of mourning, love, and friendship in the process. \u2014Mira Braneck\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is a clich\u00e9 to observe that the more things change, the more they stay the same, but clich\u00e9s are clich\u00e9s for a reason, and across time, space, and history, the squabbles and dilemmas of leftist political movements seem to repeat themselves over and over. The criticisms that the Egyptian feminist, communist, and leader of the seventies student movement Arwa Salih lodges against her generation in the 1996 book The Stillborn: Notes of a Woman from the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt<\/em><\/a> (translated from the Arabic by Samah Selim) are at once particular to her country and moment and also familiar outside their context. A supposedly worker-led movement, she observes, quickly becomes dominated by the bourgeois intellectual class, a vanguardism that functions as \u201cthe first step on the road to disengagement from the real world \u2026 One of the coarsest forms the hierarchy took was the division between \u2018authors\u2019 and everyone else\u2014the drudges who did the heavy lifting and who were also the most likely to be captured by the police.\u201d One chapter, \u201cThe Intellectual in Love,\u201d is fiercely critical of the sexism displayed by ostensibly radical men: \u201cOur friend considers it his right to exploit her. His logic is that since she\u2019s accepted exploitation, she deserves it.\u201d Brief in pages but deep in scope, The Stillborn<\/em> is a fascinating analysis of both revolutionary politics as a whole and the failures of the Egyptian student movement in particular. \u2014Rhian Sasseen<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Will McPhail. Photo courtesy of McPhail.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Even in the most socially agreeable of circumstances, it can be hard to make genuine connections with others. Considering our recent trend toward a distraction-hungry, internet-fueled, dopamine-overloaded dystopia and all the longstanding anxieties that come with the uniquely human awareness of a finite existence, it\u2019s a wonder that any of us manage to make friends at all. The cartoonist Will McPhail investigates this very wonder with his debut graphic novel, In.<\/em><\/a>, which follows a burgeoning illustrator named Nick as he struggles to connect with those around him, not quite finding a meaningful enough balance between what is considered socially palatable and what he actually feels, adrift between the performative and the authentic. As a medium, the graphic novel is beautifully suited to depicting such concerns, and McPhail\u2019s art style\u2014reminiscent of his work in The New Yorker<\/em>\u2014is minimal, direct, and as emotionally dense as any work of contemporary poetry. The spare use of color against a largely monochrome palette is particularly effective, not just in illustrating emotional changes but in conveying them\u2014the vibrant fantasies of Nick\u2019s inner world are as arresting, enveloping, and ultimately fleeting for the reader as they are for the protagonist. In.<\/em> is a sharply observed, funny, and achingly poignant examination of a subject widely understood yet rarely described, rendered subtle and playful, and made wonderfully new.\u00a0\u2014Christopher Notarnicola<\/strong><\/p>\n

Showtunes<\/em><\/a> is a great Lambchop record, and that\u2019s a high bar for a band whose output almost always lands somewhere in that range between really good and incredible. Songwriter and bandleader Kurt Wagner has been, over the past several LPs, edging toward a new sort of tweaky electronic twang, autotuning and otherwise manipulating his soft, gravelly voice while also using loops, programmed drums, synths, and other effects that don\u2019t usually appear in alternative country music. I still haven\u2019t fallen in love with the band\u2019s previous album of original material, This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You)<\/em>, on which Wagner\u2019s inimitable songwriting voice feels lost in a storm of moody electronics; it feels like he hadn\u2019t yet found a way to integrate these seemingly competing impulses. But barely two years and one pandemic later, he has. Showtunes<\/em> is a strange and comforting album: quiet, melancholy, but not without hope and consolation. Melody is at the forefront, as are the trappings of Lambchop\u2019s sound\u2014fingerpicked acoustic guitar; long, loping musical phrases; gorgeous, winding vocals; artfully arranged horns\u2014but subtle manipulations abound. It all feels of a piece, a sweet way of welcoming a new season. \u2014Craig Morgan Teicher<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few weekends ago, a sidewalk sale on St. Mark\u2019s was nicely crammed with young folks eyeing zines and small-press wares, taunting dogs with skateboards and one another with skin. Among the hiply imperfect, inclusive offerings was a magazine polished to a high shine. After Dark<\/em> was a nightlife and culture periodical produced through the seventies by Danad, then publisher of Dance Magazine<\/em>. Though officially created to cover dance and city culture, After Dark<\/em> was gay as the day is long. Hiding in plain sight are letters to the editor requesting further photographs of a model described as \u201cbody beautiful\u201d (they were furnished), advertisements for Fire Island bars and NYC baths, celebrations of the nude male form, and lots of purveyors of caftans. Winking interviews with Robert Redford and Burt Reynolds share a binding with campy fashion editorials and spreads of ballet dancers au naturel. It is lovely and light and sexy; if you are thinking the magazine may have faded in the eighties, partly under criticism of a lack of political heft or inclusive gaze, you\u2019d be right. After Dark<\/em> remains, however, a beautifully shot portrait of a moment. Left Bank Books has lovingly assembled a collection of After Dark<\/em> issues, many of which are for sale<\/a> and some of which will be on display in the storefront window through July 5. \u2014Julia Berick<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The July 1978 and April 1980 issues of After Dark<\/em>. Photos courtesy of Left Bank Books.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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