The Hammer is both weapon and tool, an outcry against millennia of rape and a serious attempt to imagine otherwise. The Hammer nails its bold proclamations to the forehead of a rape culture both literary and very real, writing through a thousand silences and shattering the false transparencies of the law. Beyond this and despite a universe of oppressions, Adelaide Ivanova also manages to create a space for real intimacy between lovers. A hammer is a weapon, she reminds us, but also a tool. You can tear it all down and then build something. | The Hammer by Adelaide Ivanova, Paperback | Indigo Chapters