
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
“Language and Monsters”
“The Apocalyptic Tradition”
“Artifacts Only: On Jonathan Lethem's "Fear of Music"”
“The Future is a Different Country: On William Gibson”
“Struggle Forever”
“Crying in Public”
“Notes on Woody Guthrie’s “Mermaid Avenue””
“In Praise of Nightmares”
“Everything Is Fluid”
“Circulation Jerks: On the Book as Fetish Object”
“A Few Shades of Roiphe”
“Drone Warfare: Tiqqun, the Young-Girl and the Imperialism of the Trivial”
“Sublime Nothingness: On 'The First Four Notes'”
“The God That Failed: Evgeny Morozov’s “To Save Everything, Click Here””
“Going the Distance: Michelle Orange's "This is Running for Your Life"”

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