Our newest feature—on AI, writing, and the myth of the author genius—by Ryan Prewitt and K. Wilson, is now out! Read it: “we might learn from the past how to prioritize writing as a practice for the public, rather than an expression of private genius.” asapjournal.com/feature/ai-a...

AI and the Myth of the Author Genius - ASAP/Review

“The First Novel Written by AI is Here,” an article proclaimed in 2018. The author doubted AI tools could ever write a good novel but nevertheless conceded that one “might just see fragments of meanin...

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“Wilson’s Whale Oil stylizes the stages of multiple, overlapping crises, it is a moment to reflect on blockages and breakages that might seem impossible to imagine.” Read our newest review, by @bkwilliams21.bsky.social, of Devin Wilson’s *Whale Oil*—out now! Link: asapjournal.com/review/infra...

Infrastructures at a Crisis Point in Devin Wilson’s Whale Oil - ASAP/Review

Oil circulates crisis. Paying forty bucks at the gas pump bankrolls war crimes; occupations abroad top off gas tanks at home. Speculation made in crude oil stocks monetizes occupation, and plunder finances endless consumption. Infrastructure’s deadly…

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Writing in brief yet astute aperçus, Kaitlin Roberts reads moments and scenes from Leonora Carrington’s life that interweave with her own: on phone wallpapers, museum exhibits, street billboards, the deep recesses of the mind, historical texts, search engine results asapjournal.com/feature/the-...

The Smallest Unit of Hope: Searching for Leonora Carrington’s Giantess - ASAP/Review

1: The Giantess  When I first saw her in 2023, I had a job that paid me to tell stories about animals and an apartment in Berlin I rarely left. Most days I was squirreled under…

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Ariel Nereson reviews Ben Spatz’s *Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research*, and finds the implication that “performance studies has yet to embrace the radical potential of its core belief.” asapjournal.com/review/revie...

Review: Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research - ASAP/Review

Approaching the university as a site of both critique and endeavor, Ben Spatz’s Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research offers a series of refreshingly cha...

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Have you registered for ASAP/17 yet? The registration link for our upcoming conference, happening in Madison, Wisconsin from October 15-17, 2026, is now up and ready (for you && all your friends!). Check out our website for more details, or register here: asap.press.jhu.edu/membership/c...

“What solutions, exactly, can the study of literature contribute to the survival of the public museum?” Read Lucy Mensah's review of *Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature,* by Emma Bond, out now! asapjournal.com/review/revie...

Review of Emma Bond’s Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature - ASAP/Review

In Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature (2025), literary studies scholar Emma Bond forays into urgent debates concerning the future of public museums. On its face, a literary t...

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Read our exciting new review by Wesleigh Gates writing on Will Rawls, LA, and *Unmade,* a “choreography spun from conversations with the performers about the daily frictions of life across LA’s built environments.” asapjournal.com/review/unmad...

Unmade Town: Will Rawls and the Choreogeographies of Los Angeles - ASAP/Review

Los Angeles is the kind of place that drives people—artists, writers, filmmakers—not just to understand it but to reckon with it, to publicly parse its ungraspable multiplicity. Such is the task hande...

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New piece out on feminist anthologies, editorial care, and tender(ness) in Pittsburgh in @asapjournal.bsky.social. Read it, open access, here. dx.doi.org/10.1353/asa....

Check out Gabriel Chazan's review of Provoking Religion: "Ultimately, the strongest argument of the book is that the historian of American culture ignores the significance of Christianity...for an exclusive focus on queer history or politics at their peril." asapjournal.com/review/queer...

Queer Religious Forms: Review of Anthony Petro’s Provoking Religion - ASAP/Review

Anthony Petro’s Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars brings forward a significant counternarrative of the role of religion in American art during the 1980s and 1990s. This period is freq...

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It’s June 👀 and our newest feature by Jason Alley is out now—and you should read it asap!! “STORIES: The AIDS Monument gifts greater Los Angeles one way to acknowledge an impossible period of loss and a parallel history of coalition.” asapjournal.com/feature/stor...

Story Time: West Hollywood’s New AIDS Monument - ASAP/Review

I first noted its edges out of my peripheral vision five days before Christmas. Twoish days later, I took in some of its luminescent glow from across San Vicente Boulevard, the sounds of queer excess ...

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Professor, cultural critic, and author Myra Bloom interviews intermedia artist and scholar, Eric Schmaltz about his latest poetry collection, I CONFESS (2026), an intimate and lyrical documentation of the extractive and poetic potential of lie detector tests: asapjournal.com/feature/trac...

Traces of the Self: An Interview with Eric Schmaltz - ASAP/Review

Eric Schmaltz’s latest poetry collection I CONFESS (2026) documents the poet’s experience of undergoing a lie detector test. At once intrigued and unnerved by this extractive method of truth productio...

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In our newest review, Emma Peters writes that Sophie Calle’s Take Care of Yourself "applies socially accepted forms of middle-class labor to the messy and intimate object of the break-up email.” Read it now! asapjournal.com/review/revie...

Review of Sophie Calle’s Take Care of Yourself - ASAP/Review

The break-up letter—in all its melodramatic glory— is not only a stinging force of creative inspiration (Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms may have never been penned if not for World War II nurse Agnes v...

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Our newest feature by David Berridge on Katherine Hubbard is out now! “A connection of photographic processes to daily lives that is not solely metaphorical and analogous, and/or something reflexively foregrounded through choices of grain, focus, and exposure...” asapjournal.com/feature/kath...

Katherine Hubbard’s The Great Room and Beyond: Oddkin in the Expanded Darkroom of the Photobook - ASAP/Review

The mirrored closet doors are part of a collection of architectural salvage. Once obtained, they sit in an already stuffed-full house in upstate New York. During the COVID-19 pandemic their new owner,...

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Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo writes on Adedayo Agarau: “Unlike his contemporaries, the blend of real and imagined events/entities in The Years of Blood pushes the poetics beyond real-life catastrophes, hinting at a certain level of traditional sensibility.” asapjournal.com/review/reima...

Reimagined Horrors of Ibadan: A Review of Thematic Concerns and Yoruba Significance in The Years of Blood by Adedayo Agarau - ASAP/Review

Displacement, Paul Liam observes in a review-essay, is a central aesthetic in the poetics of diasporic writers, either subconsciously or not, in such a way that the exiled writer is constantly questio...

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NEW CLUSTER ALERT Worldmaking/Worldbreaking: Reports from the ASAP/16 Gulf Coast Artist Showcase Ed. Michael Dango &&Feat. Moya Li Istifaa Ahmed Waleska Solorzano Thea Ballard Sarah Buckner Tara Holman Jered Mabaquiao Zora Duncan Paloma Checa-Gismero asapjournal.com/cluster/worl...

In our newest, Margaryta Golovchenko reviews artist Jana Sterbak’s Dimensions of Intimacy: “The flank steak from which [Vanitas] was stitched shone in the gallery light and reflected such a soft sheen that it recalled a satin nightgown eagerly awaiting to be put on…” asapjournal.com/review/jana-...

Jana Sterbak: Dimensions of Intimacy at Esker Foundation - ASAP/Review

During my visit to Jana Sterbak’s retrospective on opening night, I did not immediately recognize the famed “meat dress,” Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic (1987). The flank steak from whic...

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Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...

“Taken together,” this cluster “suggest[s] that artistic representation can reveal what is often hidden. In the case of abortion—often illegal, shameful, known more through whisper networks than official archives—so much is concealed.” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“What would our resistance look like if we thought more about aesthetics? What new kinds of resistance might emerge if aesthetics were central to our conceptualization of reproductive resistance?” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

"Beyoncé’s version of motherhood—one that draws from cultural history while responding to the present and looking toward the future—represents a version that is deeply needed during this time of great reproductive restriction..." Read: asapjournal.com/node/house-m... @asapjournal.bsky.social

"Ming Fay’s posthumous presence is not memorial but mutation, a continuation of life in materials that refuse stillness." Read @reneeyujin.bsky.social on Ming Fay, The Campus, papier-mâché skin, persistence and ruin, legacy and residue, sculpture, fruit, and more! asapjournal.com/review/the-w...

The Wing that Remains: Organic Afterlife of Ming Fay at The Campus - ASAP/Review

2025 Annual Exhibition, The Campus341 NY-217, Claverack, NYJune 28 — October 26, 2025 A soft light washes along the old school corridor. The air feels slightly cool, carrying the faint scent of tile a...

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“There is, unfortunately, an unironic similarity to Happy the Elephant’s quest for freedom and the continued fight for bodily and reproductive autonomy of human beings..." Read: asapjournal.com/node/her-bel... @asapjournal.bsky.social

Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...

From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion - ASAP/Review

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“Those without access to power—to master discourse, whether because of race, gender, sexuality, economic status, nationality, religion, or other forms of identity that those with power seek to exclude—use code." Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“It is hard to describe abortion as a form of sexual freedom. Writing of art and abortion in 2009, when abortion was still legal across the country, Jennifer Doyle expressed this difficulty with eloquence...” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

From the Gaps / Political Representations / Samuel Alito’s Witch Hunt, Lydia Nobles’s Pleasure Trophies - ASAP/Review

It is hard to describe abortion as a form of sexual freedom. Writing of art and abortion in 2009, when abortion was still legal across the country, Jennifer Doyle expressed this difficulty with eloque...

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"The enduring presence of the image of the Virgin Mary in art about abortion illuminates a crisis in representation." Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“Comstock’s network made regular headlines as they hounded those who aided and abetted bodily autonomy seekers. These laws limited discussions pertaining to bodily autonomy, which became tenuous at best and litigious at worst..." Read: asapjournal.com/node/aiding-... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“In Ancient Rome, male doctors were summoned during childbirth only if labor proved difficult. Instead, it was midwives who played the literal and figurative role of a physical and emotional support in childbirth...” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

From the Gaps / Con/textual Representations / Stand and Deliver! Experiencing Epitaphs of Roman Midwives in Funerary Contexts - ASAP/Review

In Ancient Rome, male doctors were summoned during childbirth only if labor proved difficult. Instead, it was midwives who played the literal and figurative role of a physical and emotional support in...

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