Tween Awakening
This unbearably lovely and trenchant graphic novel is also a call-to-arms.
All Reviews
Etymologies of Sadness
Park tests whether the abstract contingency of language could express something about the unresolvedness of feelings themselves.
The Sinking Ship of the Into
What happened to the poet Christopher Gilbert?
Halfway Down the Rabbit Hole
Parkinson and his fellow authors take on a bold challenge: not one field, but three.
Why We Read
"Kitchens of the Great Midwest" transported me to a place I longed for. A place that was warm.
The Steady Unraveling of Days
On "Tree Heresies" by William Wright.
Penciling Discomfort: Sam Alden’s “New Construction”
There is a kind of subtle violence in Alden's gutted illustrations.
David Bowie and the 1970s: Testing the Limits of the Gendered Body
David Bowie and the 1970s: Testing the Limits of the Gendered Body
A High and Low Mash-Up
Dostoevsky and Henry James were writing perfect Tumblr captions for movies that wouldn’t be made for a century or so.
Dark and Dreary … and Real
"The Dead Duke" is ideal reading, like ghost and detective stories, for the days of the year when evening arrives early and temperatures are dropping.
Nonne Nano
"Mondo Nano" revisits, in a new frame, the classic questions of technological media studies initially considered by scholars like Benjamin.
War and Girlhood
“The war in Zagreb began over a pack of cigarettes.”
Remembering Bodies
Hurricane Katrina made visible what Butler has called the differential distribution of precarity.
Are We Postcritical?
In "The Limits of Critique," Felski argues that critique has become the very kind of common sense it sets out to expose.
Love Is Not Enough
Yanagihara explores the theme of male friendship with an intensity that feels claustrophobic.
Adrift Between Adults: New Stories by Ann Beattie
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