Reviews

How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time by Carolyn Dinshaw

ericgaryanderson's review against another edition

5.0

OMG. Carolyn Dinshaw is my new role model. A brilliant, beautifully written, and gloriously Smiths-themed book, one that I'm especially grateful to have read while I'm working on my own new book. I learned so much from Dinshaw about how to unspool arguments, and she gives us license to have fun in the unspooling. And, just in case this isn't obvious, you don't have to be a medievalist or a queer studies person to dig this one. I read it mainly to find out how smart peers are thinking and writing about the complexities and possibilities inherent in constructions of time (my own work homes in on spooky time traveling through and across pasts, presents, and futures).