Author: Lincoln Michel

  • The Shortlist: March 21, 2025

    The Shortlist: March 21, 2025

    Nonfiction by Sarah Mullens, fiction by Lincoln Michel, Camara S. Garrett, Tracie Adams and Kristen Arnett, and crap from ChatGPT.

  • The Tugwort by Lincoln Michel

    An engaged couple is planning a wedding, but the bride-to-be suffers from panic attacks. Michel is so good at making that feeling seem real and relatable, Every so often, Carla would feel a painful sensation in her chest, as if some angry creature was being born there. This creature would unfurl its burning limbs. A…

  • The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel

    The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel

    The world in this book is extremely well-realized. Michel must have spent a ton of time putting together the details of it. You could carve a half-dozen dystopian novels from elements that this book treats as ephemeral. It’s a hellscape of corporate ownership, environmental disaster, body modification and surveillance. So much of the world building…