Business Continues: Ten Novels and the Speed of Harm
Violence converted into procedure across ten novels, from a Brazilian slaughterhouse to a predator whose vocabulary outlives him.
Notes on Books
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Business Continues: Ten Novels and the Speed of Harm
Violence converted into procedure across ten novels, from a Brazilian slaughterhouse to a predator whose vocabulary outlives him.
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Explanation Under Pressure
An event occurs without becoming motive. Explanation is demanded, but the act remains without justification.
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Reading Queer Life
How queer life in literature is shaped by scrutiny, secrecy, attachment, violence and memory across the archive.
Foster
A summer of care staged as rescue, ending in a child carrying a measure her own family need never meet.
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
A house's debt to the devil staged as inheritance, ending in a granddaughter who lives outside its doctrine.
Bury Your Dead
A roadside depot grinds animal carcasses while human corpses wait on a morgue van that never starts. Dignity falls to whoever will carry a body.
Dooneen
A wounded man writes from a cliff-cut room as Dublin’s housing uprising ends in massacre and contested record.
The Disappearers
A rehearsal room in 1988 Kingston becomes the site of an attack whose aftermath spreads through aliases, testimony, revenge and return.
The Fall
A lawyer in an Amsterdam bar turns confession into control, using guilt to build a private court no listener can leave untouched.
At Night All Blood is Black
A failed mercy killing repeated on strangers as restitution, ending in an act the army's procedure cannot absorb.
Kingfisher
A debut novel follows a writer’s affair with an older woman, turning desire, illness and care into a question of who controls the record.
Arendal
One night failing to get home. Thirty years failing to get anywhere further.
Lázár
A Hungarian family learns to survive through concealment, then enters a century that turns concealment into policy.
Palimpsest
A memoir organises a life as social evidence, placing wit, rank and sexual candour under the pressure of what the argument cannot contain: the grief that outlasts every performance of detachment.