The Woods All BlackThe Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood soaked revenge, all set in 1920s AppalachiaLeslie Bruin is assigned to the backwoods township of Spar Creek by the Frontier Nursing Service, under its usual mandate: vaccinate the flock, birth babies, and weather the judgements of churchy locals who look at him and see a failed woman. Forged in the fires of the Western Front and reborn in the cafes of Paris, Leslie believes

Jewish assimilation and white flight

She’s co-editor of the seminal text on race and feminism Colonize This

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Press

And with the help of a kindly zookeeper

An autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis

Héctor discovers he’s stumbled into a room that shouldn’t be possible

A Horse is Not a Metaphor

and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life

the fronds of a potted fern for his headdress

but doesn’t replace it

September 1970

thirty-five years ago