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by Darren Huang
The novel falters on the promise of its original plotting by resorting to cursorily drawn characters, prose that is often simply convenient or overreaching for poetry, and an unjustifiably cruel world.
Djinn City – Saad Z. Hossain
The novel falters on the promise of its original plotting by resorting to cursorily drawn characters, prose that is often simply convenient or overreaching for poetry, and an unjustifiably cruel world.
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w/ John Farley
“I do not believe in the poet as a prophet. I do not believe in the poet as a revelator of absolute truths. I do not believe in the poet as a warrior. I think the poet is a sort of journalist of himself who uses language to flirt with beauty.”
Jesús Carmona-Robles
“I do not believe in the poet as a prophet. I do not believe in the poet as a revelator of absolute truths. I do not believe in the poet as a warrior. I think the poet is a sort of journalist of himself who uses language to flirt with beauty.”
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by Adam Fales
To reissue a book involves hoping that history repeats itself, but this time with a difference.
Mrs. Caliban – Rachel Ingalls
To reissue a book involves hoping that history repeats itself, but this time with a difference.
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by Allison Noelle Conner
NDiaye, who is half French and half Senegalese, drains the narrative of the usual markers of identity, leaving behind elemental psychological processes and beguiling allusions.
My Heart Hemmed In – Marie NDiaye
NDiaye, who is half French and half Senegalese, drains the narrative of the usual markers of identity, leaving behind elemental psychological processes and beguiling allusions.
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by Darren Huang
The novel falters on the promise of its original plotting by resorting to cursorily drawn characters, prose that is often simply convenient or overreaching for poetry, and an unjustifiably cruel world.
Djinn City – Saad Z. Hossain
The novel falters on the promise of its original plotting by resorting to cursorily drawn characters, prose that is often simply convenient or overreaching for poetry, and an unjustifiably cruel world.
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by Adam Fales
To reissue a book involves hoping that history repeats itself, but this time with a difference.
Mrs. Caliban – Rachel Ingalls
To reissue a book involves hoping that history repeats itself, but this time with a difference.
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by Allison Noelle Conner
NDiaye, who is half French and half Senegalese, drains the narrative of the usual markers of identity, leaving behind elemental psychological processes and beguiling allusions.
My Heart Hemmed In – Marie NDiaye
NDiaye, who is half French and half Senegalese, drains the narrative of the usual markers of identity, leaving behind elemental psychological processes and beguiling allusions.
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by Laura Wetherington
Through witnessing the movement as an outsider while reflecting on his complex position, Leung creates a rich, dynamic inquiry into our responsibility to one another.
Goddess of Democracy: an Occupy Lyric – Henry Wei Leung
Through witnessing the movement as an outsider while reflecting on his complex position, Leung creates a rich, dynamic inquiry into our responsibility to one another.
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w/ John Farley
“I do not believe in the poet as a prophet. I do not believe in the poet as a revelator of absolute truths. I do not believe in the poet as a warrior. I think the poet is a sort of journalist of himself who uses language to flirt with beauty.”
Jesús Carmona-Robles
“I do not believe in the poet as a prophet. I do not believe in the poet as a revelator of absolute truths. I do not believe in the poet as a warrior. I think the poet is a sort of journalist of himself who uses language to flirt with beauty.”
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w/ Madison McCartha
How can we go beyond the commonplace, even when we’re thinking of ourselves, to get to a deeper, hidden otherness?
John Keene
How can we go beyond the commonplace, even when we’re thinking of ourselves, to get to a deeper, hidden otherness?
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w/ Ariel Resnikoff
it can be a comment about desire it can be anything in one word
Zali Gurevitch
it can be a comment about desire it can be anything in one word
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w/ Nina Renata Aron
“The moments of transitioning to motherhood were moments of clarity, of cutting through the things that I wasn’t able to cut through before.”
Anna Prushinskaya
“The moments of transitioning to motherhood were moments of clarity, of cutting through the things that I wasn’t able to cut through before.”
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by Tom LeClair
On reading and writing books in two centuries.
Final Words
On reading and writing books in two centuries.
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by Andrea Penman-Lomeli
In Mexico, state-sponsored films allow symbolic critique to supplant structural change.
Consumption of Culture as Politics
In Mexico, state-sponsored films allow symbolic critique to supplant structural change.
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by S.D. Chrostowska
A typology of the beggar in Western culture.
Begging for Utopia
A typology of the beggar in Western culture.
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by Daniel D. Clausen
The contradictions of nostalgic crafting.
The Anarchist in the Woodshop
The contradictions of nostalgic crafting.
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by Kaila Philo
Images are easy to project ourselves onto—we’re taught to do so, after all—but it’s a bit harder to describe what’s on the inside, especially when we misconstrue our detachment as a vacancy, rather than a conscious subduing of pain.
Pretty and Witty
Images are easy to project ourselves onto—we’re taught to do so, after all—but it’s a bit harder to describe what’s on the inside, especially when we misconstrue our detachment as a vacancy, rather than a conscious subduing of pain.
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by Jonathan Murden
In Durham, where Leave gained 57.5% of the referendum vote, one could see a man walking around the city center, bearing a sign that read, “LEAVE THE EU – RETURN TO YOUR GOD.”
Waiting for the End of the World
In Durham, where Leave gained 57.5% of the referendum vote, one could see a man walking around the city center, bearing a sign that read, “LEAVE THE EU – RETURN TO YOUR GOD.”
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by Jess Bergman
At a time when self-care has been effectively sold and “love” mangled to mean turning a blind eye, Paley’s stories seem to offer a way out—a less sanitized and more genuinely compassionate way to live with both ourselves and others.
Grace Paley’s Political Vision of Love
At a time when self-care has been effectively sold and “love” mangled to mean turning a blind eye, Paley’s stories seem to offer a way out—a less sanitized and more genuinely compassionate way to live with both ourselves and others.
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by B.D. McClay
With each day, as walks and meals arrive in a predictable order, as I persuade him to walk down the stairs or past the bicycle and no catastrophe occurs, we grow closer together, but he’ll remain a visitor—and thus so will I—until we can talk with one another.
Teaching a Dog to Talk
With each day, as walks and meals arrive in a predictable order, as I persuade him to walk down the stairs or past the bicycle and no catastrophe occurs, we grow closer together, but he’ll remain a visitor—and thus so will I—until we can talk with one another.
