Or course

Catherine Wagner

Of Course is about burnout, and loneliness in a crowd: The lonely is a white middle-aged cis-het woman academic and the crowd is crickets. Power makes sex hurt. Harm is embedded in English. Cricket sound is absent from concrete. The author burns out alongside world burnout, happening unevenly and much harder/hotter for many than for the author—fires and rising waters, fascism, the race-track, slowburn genocide, species death.