Mothers and Sons
Distance persists within recognition, where intimacy is structured through function and relation never resolves into closeness.
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Institutions
Fiction in which institutional power — legal, medical, corporate, state — shapes and constrains private life. Reviews of literature that names the system.
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Yellowface
In Yellowface, R. F. Kuang turns plagiarism, publishing ambition and online outrage into propulsion. The novel moves quickly, even as its satire reduces people to instruments.