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Héctor Tobar

Sandra Cisneros with Hector Tobar

Security

Christian Kriticos

Christian Kriticos explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s long-lost satire of a motorized world.

Isengard in Oxford

Calvin Gimpelevich

Calvin Gimpelevich writes on the history and politics of public bathrooms, in this essay from LARB Quarterly no. 47, “Security.”

Filthy Matters

Hannah H. Kim

Hannah H. Kim ponders the plotless narrative as a tool for meaning-making.

When Story Loses the Plot

Regan Mies

Regan Mies reviews Wolfgang Hilbig’s “Under the Neomoon” and “Territories of the Soul/On Intonation.”

Sandra Cisneros with Hector Tobar

By Héctor TobarJanuary 22, 2013

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