FORTHCOMING Summer 2026
M.H. Bowker’s Walls is a contemplative essay that is sometimes playful and sometimes grave. At first blush, its subject matter would appear simple. Walls considers (1) the psychic meaning of walls and (2) the meaning of psychic walls. It turns out that these two subjects are intimately and interestingly related, such that meditating on one[…]
Published: 04/15/2024
Alone in the Dark is an experimental memoir – or perhaps, more accurately, an anti-memoir or fabulist memoir, some unruly combination of essay, prose poem, and floating reverie that examines the relationship between one’s cultural heritage and one’s aesthetic devotions. Unlike a traditional autobiography that details the chronological events of a person’s life, the book[…]
Published: 03/29/2019
On the unstable boundaries between “interior” and “exterior,” “private” and “public,” and always in some way relating to a “beyond,” the imagery of interior space in literature reveals itself as an often disruptive code of subjectivity and of modernity. The wide variety of interior spaces elicited in literature — from the odd room over the[…]