Contributions by Elizabeth Bingler

Book Review: THE STORY OF MY TEETH by Valeria Luiselli, Trans. by Christina MacSweeny

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The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli Trans. by Christina MacSweeney Coffee House Press, 2015 $16.95 In 2013 Galería Jumex, a contemporary art gallery outside of Mexico City, commissioned Valeria Luiselli to write a fictional story about their exhibition, The Hunter and the Factory. Her resulting work, The Story of My Teeth, explores the connection between …

Book Review: LOVE MAPS by Eliza Factor

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Love Maps by Eliza Factor Akashic Books, 2015 $15.95 Love Maps, published in May by Akashic Books, is Eliza Factor’s second novel. Her first novel, The Mercury Fountain—about a utopian society that mines mercury in order to reap its “magical” benefits—was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice in 2012. Factor considers …