
“The distinction between complex thinking and right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and the education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen
“World-Shifting: Haruki Murakami's "1Q84"”
“Margaret Atwood and the S and F Words”
“Language and Monsters”
“Strange Tales”
“Black and White”
“Playful Games with Reality”
“Winsome Ghosts in the Machine”
“Magical Mash-up”
“Words That Kill”
“Pornotopia”
“SalvagePunk”
“Shangri-La in the Rockies”
“Mining the Great Midden of Genre”
“Irony Black as the Spaces Between the Stars ”
“Posthuman Yearnings”
“A Compassionate Manifesto”
“On the Borderlands”
“The Golden Age: On Chabon's "Telegraph Avenue"”
“A Puzzle Box of a Quest Fantasy”
“Mass-Market Surrealism”
“Beautiful Shape-Shifter: Karen Lord's "The Best of All Possible Worlds"”
“Jetsam on the Terminal Beach: M. John Harrison's "Empty Space"”

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