Real Review #18 Spring 2026 runway This thrilling book explores the

This thrilling book explores the role of cabarets

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ’S devoted pen pal JEAN-PIERRE DELAGE

she returns to her own writing process

In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall

an atlas of feeling

Real Review #18 Spring 2026 runway This thrilling book explores thePretending the World To pretend means to "lay claim" to stretch forward and take hold of what we want, as if it already existed, or were already ours. To pretend is thus to call forth another reality and create truth through the power of conviction alone. It is fashionable to ridicule performative gestures as ineffective posturing. Yet this is literally the only way that new societies come into being. This issue of Real Review is dedicated to the