Worms in Love
This is a story about Gelsomina, a senior French Bulldog on the brink of death who has just contracted parasitic worms. As she prods the nature of her existence, Gelsomina reflects on love, sex, death, and the monotony of her domesticated lifetime.
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Nadia Bou Ali on Parapraxis, Bellies by Nicola Dinan, new Brontez Purnell, the Zone of Interest and much more…
THERE IS NO ESCAPE. Review by Delia Rainey
Delia Rainey reviews Samantha Sewell’s debut collection of short fiction ‘THERE IS NO ESCAPE.’
Gardening with Guy Debord
This eerie anti-fantasy about visiting Guy Debord at his chateaux in France, and being prey to his whims and reveries by Amy Grandvoinet comes as a response to Claire Carroll's piece in PROTOTYPE 5 . It includes leaf-sweeping, chess-playing, fountain philosophy, and a hatred of madeleines.
The Body as the Crime Scene & Gothic Burial in Johanne Lykke Holm’s Strega
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou writes about Johanne Lykke Holm’s Strega, translated by Saskia Vogel, and the tradition of female objectification, burial and repression in gothic fiction and beyond.
Worms Best Reads of 2023
The Worms team share their favourite reads of 2023.
~*~**~*~**~*~MY FAVORITE BOOKS I READ IN 2023~*~**~*~*~*~*~~
Delia Rainey gives us her top 15 reads of 2023.
The Resurrection of Melissa Lee-Houghton: The UK’s Greatest (almost) Forgotten Poet Exposure/Ideal Palace
After a seven year gap due to personal difficulties and career highs and lows, Melissa Lee-Houghton returns from the edge of obscurity and personal precarity with a two-book collection Exposure/Ideal Palace published by Pariah Press.
Worms Best Reads of November
Cookie Mueller & Jacqueline Rose
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Maya Angelou, Robert Glück, Guillaume Dustan, Nathalie Olah and much more…
Father, Son and Holy Psychic
Sheridan Wilbur shares her auspicious short story with us.
The Key to Bluebeard’s Study: Anna Biller and Gothic’s Live Burial of Women
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou writes about Anna Biller’s Bluebeard’s Castle, containment and the gothic genre in relation to female bodies and space.
Worms Best Reads of October
Featuring Angela Y. Davis, James Baldwin, Maya C. Popa and more…
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Rebecca May Johnson, Annie Hamilton, Jacqueline Rose and much more…
The Martine Syms Wormhole
Take a dive into the Martine Syms Wormhole, as seen in Worms 7.
Fangirling and Facing the Shadow Self: Opening Up a Can of Worms with Sheena Patel
Clair Humphries reviews the first episode of Opening Up a Can of Worms with Sheena Patel.
Worms Best Reads of September 2023
Featuring Nell Zink, James Baldwin, Kate Morgan and more…
Books Are Hot
Dalya Benor writes about the commodification of intellectualism, “hot girl books” and the phenomenon of book curators.