Who Knew Imagination Could Be So Deadly?
This storyline alone could bring new readers into the trilogy, as King adeptly prompts his reader to want to know what happens next.
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A Spell of Foreign Travel
The "Diver's Clothes Lie Empty" loses no time in engaging a question that epitomizes what the most authentic travel is about: what is it to have an identity?
Mapping the Wander Lines: The Quiet Revelations of Fernand Deligny
Fernand Deligny rejected psychiatric categories of thought around autism, and embraced instead ways of thinking around states of being, and wandering lines.
Scenes of Love and Theft: Bob Dylan, Piracy, and Cultures of Transgression
From Bob Dylan's "Great White Wonder," the first rock 'n' roll bootleg, to "Dell" Glover, patient zero of music piracy.
The Rise and Fall of LSD
The history of LSD in the United States, and its strange path from legitimacy to illegitimacy, is a fascinating tale that needs to be better understood.
On Looking into Sherlock Holmes
The line between fiction and reality blurred almost immediately for Holmes readers.
The Prophets Leave Hometown: Three Physicists Try Philosophy
Three physicists try their hands and minds writing philosophy.
Corporeal and Incorporeal Machines
Onto-Cartography is a form of politics based in new materialism — the belief that objects have agency and matter matters.
Everyday Plato
Jo Walton turns the political philosophy of Plato's republic into speculative fiction.
An Individual Miracle
Those who are on the road from Auschwitz are all exceptions, just as every road from Auschwitz is an exception.
Farewell to the Space Shuttle
Margaret Lazarus Dean's "Leaving Orbit" is a deft and lyrical meditation on the last days of the NASA space shuttle program.
Pistols at Dawn
John Leigh’s Touché: The Duel in Literature surveys literary duels from Pierre Corneille’s Le Cid to Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.
The Engineer: William Mulholland and the Search for Water in Los Angeles
Les Standiford shines light on noir icon William Mulholland.
Golden Ages Past
Muse is a kind of mystery: not so much a who-done-it but a more satisfying who-felt-it, who-experienced-it, who-saw-it-for-what-it-really-was.
Desire in a Drought
Anna Mavromati discusses Catherine Chanter's debut novel and the power of rare commodity.
The Endocannabinoid Comes of Age
As Barcott explains, we seem poised to decriminalize marijuana, but we've been here before …
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