Noelle McManus
Noelle McManus is a writer-poet-linguist from Long Island, New York. Their work has appeared in Eclectica, Redivider, Vagabond City Press, and elsewhere. In addition to working as an editorial assistant at LIBER, they are a National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow.
- Women, In Love
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX, FEBRUARY 2023, 128 PP. ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET’S 1974 film Successive Slidings of Pleasure starts with the protagonist tying her nude female lover to the bed frame to paint flowers over her nipples. The next we see of this lover, she is dead, stabbed in the breast with
VOLUME 2: ISSUE 1
SPRING 2023
- It Can't Be Helped
GROVE ATLANTIC, NOVEMBER 2022, 672 PP. I’VE PREFACED FAR too many conversations lately with “I’ve just read Kafka’s diaries.” I actually read Kafka’s diaries about six months ago, but I can’t shake the feeling I’ve discovered something incredible. It’s silly, I know. Surprise, surprise: Kafka is good. But I’ve been
VOLUME 1: ISSUE 5
WINTER 2022