The Ballad of Malady Nelson is a poetry comic that builds with momentum, each panel swallowing the lines before it until a single sentence has grown into a catalogue of chronic illness, botched surgery, and care that never arrives.

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Books I read and loved in 2025:

Harriet Armstrong, To Rest Our Minds and Bodies (Les Fugitives)
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room (Penguin)
Saul Bellow, Seize the Day (Penguin)
Heinrich Böll, The Clown (Calder and Boyars) translated by Leila Vennawitz

Books I read and loved in 2024:

Kōbō Abe, The Ruined Map (Penguin) trans, E. Dale Saunders
Marguerite Duras, The Lover (Flamingo) trans, Barbara Bray
Victor Jestin, Heatwave (Simon & Schuster) trans, Sam Taylor
Violette Leduc, Thérèse and Isabelle (Salammbo) trans, Sophie Lewis

Two blazing new poems from Amy McCauley appear in the first issue of STRINGS, a new online publication published today. stringsmag.com/strings-1-am... Features work by David Hayden, Tom Jenks and a cohort of illustrious contributors.

Books I read and loved in 2023:

Chantal Akerman, My Mother Laughs (Silver Press) trans, Daniella Shrier
Joe Brainard, I Remember (Granary Books)
Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death (Fitzcarraldo) trans, Patrick O’Brian
Amina Cain, Indelicacy (Daunt Books
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