All Essays

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  A Change of Path: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “The Incal”

  On the Chilean author-director Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Anthony PalettaAug 26, 2013
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  Spinster, Victim, Soldier, Spy: Dick Francis and The Evolution of Female Characters in Crime Fiction

  The Evolution of Female Characters in Crime Fiction

  Aug 24, 2013
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  Why Genre Matters

  The old question of genre just won't go away: Sven Birkerts, Judith Kitchen, Scott Nadelson, David Biespiel, and Dinah Lenney mix it up some more.

  David Biespiel, Dinah Lenney, Judith Kitchen, Scott Nadelson, Sven BirkertsAug 23, 2013
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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