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As the title of this column states, this is a space to talk about new books.
But have you ever stopped to consider the paradox of talking about books that dont actuallydoanything new?
Ideally, the net effect will get readers to think in a way they havent before.
But that doesnt make it any less true.
Instead, he makes his case, and its a necessary one.
Women want to want, Kahn and McMasters note in their introduction.
And wanting which demands hunger and requires autonomy remains, for women, a dangerous concept.
Yet the diversity of desires (and writing techniques) raises the cumulative effect ofWantingto the level of triumphant.
Torrey Peters on transitioning during anti-gay violence in Uganda?
Melissa Febos on the orgasms relationship tofrission?
Both stories negotiate the consequences of claiming what one wants, and there are plenty more examples alongside them.
As Searls notes in his introduction, Manns Brazilian-born mother was of Portuguese, Black, and Indigenous descent.
This renders Mann Black by the one-drop rule, which Searlss translations acknowledge but arent shackled by.
His writing may be German in origin, but it belongs to all of us.
