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Literature and its Manipulations in The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li’s new book is a taut landscape built of all literature’s attachments, manipulations, displacements, anxieties, and escapes. It is the labored breadth of an economy that is resplendently libidinal and compelling.
Meaningless Craft and Crafting Meaning in Ali Smith’s Companion Piece
Craft, in Ali Smith’s hand, is malleable. It produces meaning that is disparate from the terms and antecedents of its making.