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Super-Close Reading: On Marjorie Perloff’s “Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics”
This superb critical study explores “what makes poetry with a capital P so captivating and indispensable.”
Tal GoldfajnMar 29, 2022
- Literary Criticism
We Can’t Run from Our Bodies: A Conversation with Aileen Weintraub
Megan Margulies interviews Aileen Weintraub about the experiences that led her to write “Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir.”
Megan MarguliesMar 28, 2022
- Memoir & Essay
The Yankee Who Didn’t Go Home: On Robert Whiting’s “Tokyo Junkie”
An American author’s memoir of his six decades in Japan and his love affair with Tokyo.
Colin MarshallMar 28, 2022
- Around the World
Immigration All Over Again: Americans from the former Soviet Union Rally in support of Ukraine
Masha Rumer speaks émigrés from the former Soviet Union who are reckoning with the war in Ukraine.
Masha RumerMar 28, 2022
Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of First Books: Amanda Moore’s “Requeening,” Paul Tran’s “All the Flowers Kneeling,” and Devon Walker-Figueroa’s “Philomath”
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader consider Amanda Moore’s “Requeening,” Paul Tran’s “All the Flowers Kneeling,” and Devon Walker-Figueroa’s “Philomath.”
Dean Rader, Victoria ChangMar 28, 2022
- Poetry
There’s No Place Like Home
Dubravka Ugrešić follows humanity’s gaze toward Oz, in an essay translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać.
Dubravka UgrešićMar 27, 2022
- Around the World
Sciences of “Dune”: An Introduction
A symposium on the science of "Dune."
Mar 27, 2022
Arguing About the Origins of Science
Michael Bycroft addresses the latest scholarly rows about where science originated.
Michael BycroftMar 27, 2022
- Science & Technology
Sietchposting: A Short Guide to Recent Work on “Dune”
The “dunescourse” — or “sietchposting,” as it is affectionately called — is vast.
Haris A. DurraniMar 27, 2022
- Science & Technology
Eugenics
How the history of eugenics informs "Dune."
Ayah NuriddinMar 27, 2022
- Science & Technology
Prophecy
The power of Dune, of its Fremen, is rooted in the prophecy.
Ahmed RagabMar 27, 2022
- Science & Technology
Ethnography
"Dune" itself is a work of ethnography — a gateway into a new world.
Taylor M. MooreMar 27, 2022
- Science & Technology
Harvesting
The question of “peak oil” or “peak spice" has always been a proxy for a paramount existential concern: whether we control anything at all.
Christopher DietrichMar 27, 2022
Language
Omnia El Shakry on the dream world of "Dune."
Mar 27, 2022
Computers
In the "Dune" universe, despite their ostensible absence, the computers and artificial intelligences of Herbert’s time are palpably present.
Stephanie DickMar 27, 2022
- Science & Technology
Pharmacology
"Dune" marked a moment when this approach to experimental drugs entered pop culture.
Benjamin BreenMar 27, 2022
- Science & Technology