Discussed in this essay:
Females: A Concern, by Andrea Long Chu. Verso. 112 pages. $12.95.
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, by Corey Robin. Metropolitan Books. 320 pages. $30.
The Factory, by Hiroko Oyamada. Translated by David Boyd. New Directions. 128 pages. $13.95.
Mining I, by Nicole Eisenman © The artist. Courtesy Anton Kern Gallery, New York City
There are no men in the densely civilized galaxy of Samuel R. Delany’s 1984 novel Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. Everybody—whether human or extraterrestrial, and on all but a few backwater…
