Sharp, Sparse, Strained: A Review on Flesh by David Szalay

Modernist Hour!

Check out my newest post, The Grey Zone:

"The grey zone – an exploration of queerness — operates as a tension that destabilizes the binaries of Black/white, woman/man, wife/lover in Nella Larsen's 'Passing'. It haunts the novel like an untold truth, never named but always present, and in doing so, fractures the stable world of Irene Redfield as Larsen queers the very foundations of modernism through her portrayal of repressed desire, ambiguous intimacy, and the unsettling instability of the self..."