"The book’s gesture to articulate narratives around automobiles and roads from across different latitudes of capitalist development novels is urgent and necessary . . . " Check out our review by Adriana Johnson of Cartographies of Empire! asapjournal.com/review/revie...

Review: Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony - ASAP/Review

Myka Tucker-Abramson’s sharp and compelling Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony takes the road novel as a “generic product of US hegemony” (3) and as a vehicle for mapping pr...

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Great editorial opportunity! 👇

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@asapjournal.bsky.social is looking for a new Reviews Editor! Applications are due October 1. No minimum qualifications, and editors receive a yearly stipend of $2500. Please send a CV and cover letter to Editor-in-Chief Michael Dango at editor@asapjournal.com.

It's true! We're looking for a new Reviews Editor! If interested, or if you know someone who'd be a great fit for the position, please send this their way :)

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@asapjournal.bsky.social is looking for a new Reviews Editor! Applications are due October 1. No minimum qualifications, and editors receive a yearly stipend of $2500. Please send a CV and cover letter to Editor-in-Chief Michael Dango at editor@asapjournal.com.

@asapjournal.bsky.social is looking for a new Reviews Editor! Applications are due October 1. No minimum qualifications, and editors receive a yearly stipend of $2500. Please send a CV and cover letter to Editor-in-Chief Michael Dango at editor@asapjournal.com.

First Book Review on the subject of Indigenous Performance Studies! Check it out:

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Chengbao Seong-Bo Jin (@seongbokim.bsky.social) writes Critical Dreaming “makes its sharpest intervention not by inaugurating anticolonial critique w/in feminist performance studies...by reorganizing that conversation along 2 axes the field has only begun to inhabit.“ asapjournal.com/review/other...

“Relation is not a theme to be curated but a practice to cultivate, sustained through attention, material, and form.” Our newest review on the 2026 Whitney Biennial by Evelyn Hanyue Qin is out now! asapjournal.com/review/relat...

Relation as Practice: On the 2026 Whitney Biennial - ASAP/Review

Whitney Biennial 2026Whitney Museum of American Art, New YorkMarch 8 – August 23, 2026 Curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer In Emilie Louise Gossiaux’s ballpoint-pen-and-crayon drawing Co-Shapi...

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Chengbao Seong-Bo Jin (@seongbokim.bsky.social) writes Critical Dreaming “makes its sharpest intervention not by inaugurating anticolonial critique w/in feminist performance studies...by reorganizing that conversation along 2 axes the field has only begun to inhabit.“ asapjournal.com/review/other...

Otherwise Relationality: Review of Critical Dreaming: Feminist Performances across the Indigenous Americas - ASAP/Review

In December 2015, at the close of Acting Out: A Symposium of Indigenous Performance Art in Santa Fe, Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore appeared as a projected face wearing a paper “Indian Brave” mask...

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Hey hey hey! Check out this smart, savvy, and positively glowing review of @franciscondine.bsky.social's brilliant COALITION LITERATURE (Stanford UP, 2025) by Grace Tierney up now at @asapjournal.bsky.social. It's front and center—you can't miss it! 🧡

Okay, I am very moved by how this review just understands my book at a deep level, especially in terms of how the pieces fit together, the stakes of its arguments, and places I couldn’t quite go far enough (but that I hope are taken up by others), and why it mattered so much to me to write the book.

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Grace Tierney looks at Francisco Roble’s book, *Coalition Literature: Aesthetics on the Move in Midcentury Multiethnic Writing,* and how it “offers a future for art that expresses and inspires effective protest, drawing on twentieth-century leftist power.” asapjournal.com/review/revie...

Grace Tierney looks at Francisco Roble’s book, *Coalition Literature: Aesthetics on the Move in Midcentury Multiethnic Writing,* and how it “offers a future for art that expresses and inspires effective protest, drawing on twentieth-century leftist power.” asapjournal.com/review/revie...

Review of Coalition Literature: Aesthetics on the Move in Midcentury US Multiethnic Writing by Francisco Robles - ASAP/Review

Coalition Literature offers a future for art that expresses and inspires effective protest, drawing on twentieth-century leftist power. Francisco Robles’s book is an illuminating literary history of m...

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“Unknowing Hong Kong enacts a refusal to fall into totalizing narratives…” Wenxuan Xue reviews Alvin K. Wong’s *Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone*—so go check out our newest publication now live! asapjournal.com/review/revie...

Review of Alvin K. Wong’s Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone - ASAP/Review

The tension between the global and the local has long been a productive site of debates within queer studies. Transnational queer scholarship in recent years has largely moved away from “including” As...

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“The history of fashion is not only written in fabrics, but also in images.” Check out our newest review, by Rong Wang, about the “Yves Saint Laurent and Photography” exhibition, which opened at the International Center for Photography (ICP) in collab with Musée YSL: asapjournal.com/review/photo...

Photography’s Memory of Fashion - ASAP/Review

“Yves Saint Laurent and Photography”June 11, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026International Center of Photography (ICP) How best to present the dialogue between fashion on photography? Each medium depends on the ot...

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“What is commitment in a world without belief, what is rigor when irony seems to be intellect’s only honest posture?” Katherine C. M. Adams reviews two pieces—my tongue is a blade and Gangsterism—in our newest uncanny juxtaposition. Check it out now! asapjournal.com/review/uncan...

Uncanny Juxtaposition / In the Cut: my tongue is a blade and Gangsterism - ASAP/Review

At one point in Gangsterism, Isiah Medina’s 2025 experimental feature film, the protagonist, filmmaker Clem, confronts the comrade he suspects of unauthorized online leaks of his film. The respondent,...

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Read our newest review by Vivian Jin, out now, to read about *Diagrams: A Project by AMO/OMA* and how the “exhibition both demystifies the diagram’s authority and operates by it.” Link: asapjournal.com/review/diagr...

Diagrams: A Project by AMO/OMA at Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai - ASAP/Review

The Prada Rong Zhai sits on North Shaanxi Road in Shanghai, behind a stretch of wall and a detail of guards. Built in the early twentieth century as a private mansion, with Corinthian columns, leaded-...

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“Published one year after the artist’s passing, Performing Chance creates a significant shift in the scholarship surrounding Knowles and her contemporaries..." Vuk Vuković reviews Nicole L. Woods’s *Performing Chance: The Art of Alison Knowles In/Out of Fluxus* asapjournal.com/review/revie...

Review of Nicole L. Woods’s Performing Chance: The Art of Alison Knowles In/Out of Fluxus - ASAP/Review

American artist Alison Knowles (1933–2025), one of the founding members of Fluxus—an international network of artists, composers, and poets most active in the 1960s and 1970s—long remained without the...

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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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Catching up on my reading with this timely issue of @asapjournal.bsky.social.

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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