bekah waalkes
@bekahwaalkes.bsky.social
writer, critic, postdoc / https://bekahwaalkes.com
I reviewed the new lockwood novel 🫡
In her new novel, Patricia Lockwood considers whether long COVID has replaced her old self with someone entirely new, writes Bekah Waalkes:
When Illness Makes You Into a New Person
In her second novel, Patricia Lockwood wonders whether long COVID has replaced her old self with someone entirely different.
bit.ly
September 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I reviewed the new lockwood novel 🫡
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"Books have become life itself for the narrator, fiction blending with memory to constitute the strange terrain of her mind, which comes to form the strange terrain of the novel." @bekahwaalkes.bsky.social reviews Tezer Özlü’s novel "Journey to the Edge of Life." lareviewofbooks.org/article/stop...
Stop Living Inside Literature | Los Angeles Review of Books
Bekah Waalkes reviews Turkish author Tezer Özlü’s novel “Journey to the Edge of Life,” translated by Maureen Freely.
lareviewofbooks.org
May 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"Books have become life itself for the narrator, fiction blending with memory to constitute the strange terrain of her mind, which comes to form the strange terrain of the novel." @bekahwaalkes.bsky.social reviews Tezer Özlü’s novel "Journey to the Edge of Life." lareviewofbooks.org/article/stop...
i wrote about my calvino collection 😀 and why paperbacks are bad now 😔 dirt.fyi/article/2025...
Covering Calvino｜Prune
The novel cover changes and changes.
dirt.fyi
March 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
i wrote about my calvino collection 😀 and why paperbacks are bad now 😔 dirt.fyi/article/2025...
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"There is no “normal time” and “trauma time” for Palestinians. There is Nakba time." Omid Bagherli interviews Palestinian author Omar Khalifah about his recent novel THE SAND-CATCHER and the attempts to remember and give form to an ongoing catastrophe.
mid-theory.com/2025/03/06/o...
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On Nakba Time: A Conversation with Omar Khalifah
For this old man, the only thing that matters — whether it’s ‘48 or ‘49 or ‘56 or ‘91 — is that Palestine is lost. Palestine is no longer so. Why do you even want to hear more details, when this is…
mid-theory.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"There is no “normal time” and “trauma time” for Palestinians. There is Nakba time." Omid Bagherli interviews Palestinian author Omar Khalifah about his recent novel THE SAND-CATCHER and the attempts to remember and give form to an ongoing catastrophe.
mid-theory.com/2025/03/06/o...
mid-theory.com/2025/03/06/o...
I loved editing this piece on LESSER RUINS & the ordinary transcendence of reading Haber: "Few writers address mediocrity directly, I suspect, because writing requires attention, worry, and admitting to worrying about being mediocre is embarrassing, even shameful." mid-theory.com/2025/02/10/u...
Utopian Mediocrity: A Review of Mark Haber’s ‘Lesser Ruins’
Mediocrity is ordinary. And this, finally, is the political salience of Haber’s work. With the publication of Lesser Ruins, Mark Haber has written three novels about deeply weird men whose visions …
mid-theory.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I loved editing this piece on LESSER RUINS & the ordinary transcendence of reading Haber: "Few writers address mediocrity directly, I suspect, because writing requires attention, worry, and admitting to worrying about being mediocre is embarrassing, even shameful." mid-theory.com/2025/02/10/u...
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INTRODUCING: MTC Oscars series! Just in time for Oscar nominations this coming Thursday. For the month of February, we'll run an ongoing series (with work from almost 30 writers) of essays, reviews, blurbs, & conversations about a whole range of Oscar frontrunners and hopefuls.
January 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
INTRODUCING: MTC Oscars series! Just in time for Oscar nominations this coming Thursday. For the month of February, we'll run an ongoing series (with work from almost 30 writers) of essays, reviews, blurbs, & conversations about a whole range of Oscar frontrunners and hopefuls.
so thrilled to publish this brilliant piece by my friend Sam on the parallels btwn speedrunning & close reading
Have you ever wondered what speedrunning is? What video games and literary analysis share? What about postcritique and twitch? Read this heady absolutely pleasurable essay by Sam Norcross on speedrunning and the two edges of a pleasurable play/text
mid-theory.com/2024/12/18/p...
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Play Fast / Read Close : What Speedrunning Videogames Taught me about Close Reading Literature
And what makes the speedrunner and the close reader analogous is that, rather than merely identifying a glitch and determining its potential cause, they instead try to capture its potential energy—…
mid-theory.com
December 18, 2024 at 7:22 PM
so thrilled to publish this brilliant piece by my friend Sam on the parallels btwn speedrunning & close reading
so fun to talk about scents at @mid-theory.bsky.social 🥀
just in time for holiday gift-buying, check out our newest MTC Mixtape on fragrance, featuring the following collection of geniuses:
Alexia Alkadi-Barbaro
Annie Berke
Samuel Catlin
Faith S. Harden
Arah Ko
Sheila Liming
Rachel Tay
Bekah Waalkes
Korey Williams
and me 😉
mid-theory.com/2024/12/13/m...
Alexia Alkadi-Barbaro
Annie Berke
Samuel Catlin
Faith S. Harden
Arah Ko
Sheila Liming
Rachel Tay
Bekah Waalkes
Korey Williams
and me 😉
mid-theory.com/2024/12/13/m...
Mixtape #3: A Sense of Scent
For Mixtape #3, we asked some friends, writers, and readers: What do you look for in a fragrance? Do you have signature scent notes? What makes a fragrance “good”? Alexia Alkadi-Barbaro, PhD candid…
mid-theory.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:08 PM
so fun to talk about scents at @mid-theory.bsky.social 🥀