Greta LaFleur is associate professor of American studies at Yale University and the author of The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). Her writing has appeared, among other places, in LARB, The Syndicate Network, and The New Republic.
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl tells a series of stories that we already know, but it achieves its familiar ends through decidedly unfamiliar means. Andrea Lawlor’s first novel presents us with ...