I reviewed the new lockwood novel 🫡

"Books have become life itself for the narrator, fiction blending with memory to constitute the strange terrain of her mind, which comes to form the strange terrain of the novel." @bekahwaalkes.bsky.social reviews Tezer Özlü’s novel "Journey to the Edge of Life." lareviewofbooks.org/article/stop...

i wrote about my calvino collection 😀 and why paperbacks are bad now 😔 dirt.fyi/article/2025...

"There is no “normal time” and “trauma time” for Palestinians. There is Nakba time." Omid Bagherli interviews Palestinian author Omar Khalifah about his recent novel THE SAND-CATCHER and the attempts to remember and give form to an ongoing catastrophe. mid-theory.com/2025/03/06/o...

I loved editing this piece on LESSER RUINS & the ordinary transcendence of reading Haber: "Few writers address mediocrity directly, I suspect, because writing requires attention, worry, and admitting to worrying about being mediocre is embarrassing, even shameful." mid-theory.com/2025/02/10/u...

INTRODUCING: MTC Oscars series! Just in time for Oscar nominations this coming Thursday. For the month of February, we'll run an ongoing series (with work from almost 30 writers) of essays, reviews, blurbs, & conversations about a whole range of Oscar frontrunners and hopefuls.

so thrilled to publish this brilliant piece by my friend Sam on the parallels btwn speedrunning & close reading

so fun to talk about scents at @mid-theory.bsky.social 🥀