This New Eva Hesse–Inspired Novel Is an Experiment in Form (and Foam)

“I’m writing a novella about Eva Hesse, I say when people ask,” writes Kate Zambreno in their new book Foam, out from Semiotext(e) on September 15. But Hesse, the late sculptor who believed “art and life are inseparable,” keeps slipping away, getting subsumed or pushed out of Zambreno’s reach. Just one quick page break later, they “forgot where they were” in the writing: “I went into a period of constant work”—likely teaching, one