Wings of Desire May 22, 2024
There’s a popular column in New York magazine’s the Cut called Sex Diaries, which features first-person accounts by people who are having sex: rarely monogamous, often wrapped in infidelity, always salacious and intimate.As I read Anna Dorn’s third n...
Honor Levy on Her First Book May 15, 2024
“They scrolled into each other.” Honor Levy writes in her first book, appropriately called My First Book. “If they could have, they would have blushed, pink pixels on a screen.”Levy’s writing is post-internet fiction at its most compelling, chronicli...
Perfume and Pain May 08, 2024
Anna Dorn’s heroine, Astrid Dahl (no relation to Roald), spends a good deal of Perfume and Pain’s first chapters tucked away in a bungalow in the hills of L.A. brooding, trying to quell her beer, Adderall, and woman addictions with a large dose of “g...