Anomaly Features & Reviews, Year in Review — Most Read of 2019
1. Ace Visibility: 3 Books About Asexuality to Add to Your Library, by Marisa Manuel.
“In reality, asexuality is diverse, valid, and worth celebrating. And literature has started embracing it.”
2. Guttermouth: Comics Roundup, by Tony Wei Ling.
“Even excluding the vast archives and lore of mainstream comics, there is so, so much out there: online epics spanning thousands of pages, countless web platforms for long and short-form comics, and thousands of artists producing everything from sugary four-panelers to sticky erotica to prickly, experimental memoir.”
3. Under My Visible Skin: On Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias, by Jenny Drai.
“True story: having a diagnosis that belongs to the group that Esmé Weijun Wang writes about in The Collected Schizophrenias has left me feeling lonely at times, as if I’m living in a surreal world at others”
4. On ‘Bewilderness’ by Catherine Black, by Margaryta Golovchenko.
“ Over the course of this playful collection of prose poems, Black encourages readers to open their eyes wider and have another look at the world around them the way nineteenth-century pastoral poetry sought to slow down time and emphasize the details that might get overlooked in the fast pace of modern life.”
5. The Home Inside the Body: Real Chaos Astrology, vol. 13, by Genève Chao.
“Aries is about finding the home inside your own body, inside your own mind, and occupying all of it, even the parts that are ugly or scary. To love life is to love yourself.”
