The Art of Disillusionment: Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Uses of Fiction
Jodorowsky’s masterpiece begins by lurching from violent episode to mystical encounter to cosmic sexual escapade — and the momentum holds through the novel.
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“Peace Without Victory”: Woodrow Wilson and the Remaking of American Geopolitics
We have a much better understanding of the fragility of Woodrow Wilson’s vision for American power — and a much firmer sense that our leaders today should not indulge in it.
The Space of Possibility
In a sense, "Satin Island" resembles a genre for which Tom McCarthy has an avowed fondness, one listed on the cover: that brash, repetitious vessel of rousing ideology, the manifesto.
A Dip into the Forests of the Brain
Neuroscience, neurons, consciousness.
Black Left, Black List
“Let’s imagine…a history in which words like 'leftist,' 'radical,' and 'communist' did not summon instant skepticism if not scorn; a world in which these terms could sustain real dialogue.”
A Satin Island of the Mind
Christopher Urban on Tom McCarthy's new novel.
No Choice but Fantastically Disguised Compromise
Nicole Lee on Mo Yan's new novel.
Therapy and the Art of Mortality
What are we to do with our mortality?
“There Is, But We’ll Never Know”
Boris Dralyuk on Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's detective novel.
An Elephant Remembers
John Dixon Mirisola on Tania James's second novel.
Paranoia, the Realistic Response
In Horatio Moya’s novel about a journalist exiled from El Salvador, paranoia is the only logical and moral response.
Form’s Function
“But Forms is less a defense than a redesign of formalism. Levine doesn’t call for a return to old-school aesthetic appreciation and apolitical close reading as a way to curb historicism run amok. Instead, as many critics have done before her, she looks beyond her discipline for a way around the whole formalism/historicism debate.”
Printmaking: An Art Medium for the People
Searching for Foucault in an Age of Inequality
Can Foucault be blamed for an anti-human neoliberal age of inequality?
Rich Man Wanna Be King
Tyler Dilts on Dennis Lehane's final Joe Coughlin novel.
A Bloody Affair
Contributor Guy Stagg reviews "Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence" by Karen Armstrong.