Slow-Motion Dystopias: On Cara Hoffman’s “RUIN”
JULY 21, 2022 IN THE TITLE STORY of Cara Hoffman’s RUIN, a collection of partially linked tales, a painter, wandering the streets of a desolate, near-apocalyptic Lower East Side, chances upon a lanky, unkempt stranger buying an aquarium at a discount store. He “had the occupied gaze of someone I would like to fuck or … Read more