Living Rooms

Living Roomsby Sam Johnson Schlee 'Today the ideal home remains a site of illusory ease, a space that can be wiped clean of the residues of living' In this radical and elegiac essay, Sam Johnson Schlee invites readers to consider the dreams and fantasies we have about our homes, and their underlying reality. Living Rooms blends history, theory, and memoir as it moves between the colonial trade in house plants, Proustian reminiscence, and razor sharp critique of

As these voices vie for control over the text and the lines between life-writing and fiction-making begin to blur

Semi-homeless and estranged from his given family

by Sarah Schulman

to find her

an uncanny venture into a world slightly tilted – a world where darkness is never far out of the frame

and their underlying reality

intersecting identities

Horace discovers someone brilliant

Adam and Teddy hope to leave boyhood behind

and psychoanalysis – as well as the raw materials of love and life – Lafarge navigates the uncomfortable intimacy between the human body and the many bacteria

His tale of unrequited love

A visit to a major show of his sculptures sends her arrowing back to younger version of herself: to a time when she had to make room to love him when she'd felt no room within herself