All Essays

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  Mixing Memory and Desire: The Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  On Thai independent filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  Alfred LeeAug 22, 2013
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  The Martyrs’ Museum

  In the Martyrs’ Museum, the past is bloodied faces and dismembered bodies.

  Mehdi Tavana OkasiAug 21, 2013
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  Politics and the Postmodern in Magdalena Tulli

  Tulli’s concentration on the small-scale might be more comfortable for us if seen as feminine play rather than as a powerful lens on human brutality.

  Angela WoodwardAug 20, 2013
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  Borges, Politics, and the Postcolonial

  Gina ApostolAug 18, 2013
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  The Writer as Reader: Melville and his Marginalia

  William GiraldiAug 18, 2013

  • Fiction

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  Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books by Donald Justice and Allison Benis White

  A Second Look at Second Books of poetry by Donald Justice and Allison Benis White.

  Lisa Russ SpaarAug 17, 2013
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  Shopping and Fucking: “The Canyons”

  Looking beyond a world of affectless, trust-funded sexual libertines.

  Naomi FryAug 17, 2013

• CALIFORNIA in/and SCIENCE FICTION

  SF in CA: Rob Latham, Catherine Liu, Jonathan Alexander, Gregory Benford and others dicuss the history and future of science fiction in California.

  Aug 15, 2013
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  The Networked Frontier: Kim Stanley Robinson and Our Connected Universe

  The SF king of Orange County: Kim Stanley Robinson knew we'd be here now.

  Samuel Gerald CollinsAug 15, 2013
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  Sunshine Technopolis: Southern California’s Utopian Futures

  Gregory BenfordAug 15, 2013
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  Lifestyles of the Nerdy and Perverted

  Rob LathamAug 15, 2013
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  California in Science Fiction: The Future is Here

  California is SF's natural home.

  Austin Grossman, Catherine Liu, Jonathan Alexander, Patrick B. Sharp, Sherryl Vint, Vandana SinghAug 15, 2013
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  “Use the # & Tweet yr escape”: LA Flood as Mobile Dystopic Fiction

  Davin Heckman, Kathi Inman BerensAug 15, 2013
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  The Booby-Trapped Life of Rita Johnson

  Matt WeinstockAug 13, 2013
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  Negotiating the Dangerous Compromise: Curtis Harrington’s “Nice Guys Don’t Work in Hollywood”

  "The thrust of the film,"Harrington says, "is to present the artist as an alchemist who, through her creative work, becomes herself transmuted into gold."

  Nathaniel BellAug 13, 2013

  • Film

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  On Being Off: The Case of Amanda Knox

  There are, by now, several accounts of Amanda Knox’s story.

  Tom DibbleeAug 12, 2013