Strange Lights
The originality here lies in the author's ability to reshuffle the materials of pop literature and contemplate them anew.
The originality here lies in the author's ability to reshuffle the materials of pop literature and contemplate them anew.
On internet criticism, Wikipedia, and the waning of expertise.
Are we in danger, then, of a widespread, coordinated, animal revolt?
This future is a scarier place, by far, than any that SF has yet imagined.
The literary world tends to think of genre fiction in very short-hand terms, defined by rigid conventions, styles, plots, and readerships.
THE MEMOIR WAS ONCE a venerable literary genre — more compelling and immediate than biography, more inclusive than the novel. There was only one...
Finance and economics clearly play an important role in contemporary history, but for some reason there’s very little “literary” fiction about them.
LUMINOUS, PENETRATING, AND UNCANONIZABLE, the writings of 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil were neither originally conceived as books nor...
It is neither an accident nor a disaster that humanity is now, for the first time in its history, a predominantly urban species.
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.
"Few ever stop to ask how many lives just went up a supermodel's nose." Or got smoked in a bowl. Or rolled in a joint.
Ah, Middle Age. Ye despised state.
The number is highly debatable, but it turns out that, Facebook aside, the average person has about 150 friends.
Since Wyoming is now popularly associated with Dick Cheney and Matthew Shepard's murderers, it’s good to see a more complex portrait of the territory.
It’s a moral dilemma described in devastating images of both his mother’s failures and the author’s own bottomless faults.
The idea that Orwell rather than Huxley was the one to turn to if one wanted a fictional lens through which to see China went virtually unchallenged..