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Black Cat

A Review of Bright Air Black by David Vann

March 20, 2017

Trevor Payne

(New York, NY: Black Cat, 2017) Toward the end of Euripides’s Medea, Jason (erstwhile Argonaut, theiver of the Golden Fleece) abandons his wife Medea to marry Glauce, the daughter of the king of Corinth. Hard to blame him quite – … Continued

A Review of An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

June 16, 2014

Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons

(Shelter Island, NY: Black Cat, 2014) Rape culture is a term, somewhat overused lately, that describes the normalization of sexual assault in a society. Break it down, and you have two charged, weighty words that mean vastly different things to … Continued

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