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Wasness
Warren's argument feels familiar.
Jun 13, 2011
The Mysterious Island
I'm writing this because I just found out that my favorite bookseller in the world is dead.
Jun 11, 2011
Larry Flynt at Home
After all is said and done, who would you prefer as your next President? A Hollywood ham, an addle-brained astronaut, or a smut peddler who cares?
Jun 10, 2011
Astounding Cosmic News: Matthew Zapruder's "Come On All You Ghosts"
MATTHEW ZAPRUDER WILL SPEAK TO YOU. This isn’t a metaphor, or a mere recommendation: it’s a description of method. In “Come On All You Ghosts...
Jun 9, 2011
- Poetry
Stars Inside Your Thumb
A real-life horror lies at the heart of Hicok's book.
Jun 9, 2011
- Poetry
Once Children
ADULTS WHO WERE ONCE CHILDREN tend to agree: we are who we are because of fairy tales. Once upon a time, they were the clearest — and most just-seemin...
Jun 8, 2011
Strange Lights
The originality here lies in the author's ability to reshuffle the materials of pop literature and contemplate them anew.
Jun 8, 2011
The Room and the Elephant
On internet criticism, Wikipedia, and the waning of expertise.
Jun 7, 2011
Man Is Not Cat Food
Are we in danger, then, of a widespread, coordinated, animal revolt?
Jun 6, 2011
Advertising Degree Zero: William Gibson's "Zero History"
This future is a scarier place, by far, than any that SF has yet imagined.
Jun 3, 2011
- Fiction
Boiling Point
The literary world tends to think of genre fiction in very short-hand terms, defined by rigid conventions, styles, plots, and readerships.
Jun 3, 2011
Tall Redhead Syndrome
THE MEMOIR WAS ONCE a venerable literary genre — more compelling and immediate than biography, more inclusive than the novel. There was only one...
Jun 2, 2011
A Reader's Guide to Peter Mountford: An Interview
Finance and economics clearly play an important role in contemporary history, but for some reason there’s very little “literary” fiction about them.
Jun 1, 2011
Posthumous
LUMINOUS, PENETRATING, AND UNCANONIZABLE, the writings of 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil were neither originally conceived as books nor...
May 31, 2011
- Philosophy
Keys to the City
It is neither an accident nor a disaster that humanity is now, for the first time in its history, a predominantly urban species.
May 30, 2011
Letter From Trinidad: Beyoncé Is Gold
Like all pop stars of the stature she’s now attained, Beyoncé is less an expresser of herself than a mirror for our fantasies and fears.
May 27, 2011