Beyond Disbelief
I kept thinking: what a wonderfully capacious and labile medium poetry provides!
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Choose Your Own Frustration
Illustrated History
On the art of curating comics.
Strange Tales
Time is always shifty in a Fowler story, one of many unstable aspects in her consistent depiction of a mutable reality.
Language and Monsters
China Miéville is in it for the monsters, and for the philosophy of language, in his latest novel.
Losing Face: Jazmin Darznik’s “The Good Daughter”
Information Technology
Imagined Communities
Poe's adventure tale surrounding the sea voyages of Arthur Gordon Pym and his chance encounter upon Tsalal, a tropical locale near Antarctica.
Family Horserace: Bruce Machart’s “The Wake of Forgiveness”
Machart proves that there is still room on old frontiers, and plenty of fresh paths to take through them.
Beyond Unapologetic: Susie Bright's "Big Sex, Little Death"
Susie Bright puts sex in its place. She treats sexual freedom and sexual speech as litmus tests for a liberal society.
Returning to the Scene
Mourning and Melancholia: Francisco Goldman’s “Say Her Name”
The Ashes that Remain: Boris Pahor's "Necropolis"
Hungarian Masked Ball: Dezso Kosztolányi's "Kornél Esti"
Kosztolányi is considered one of the greatest Hungarian writers, a virtuoso of style and control
Even as Everything Melts: Malcolm Turvey’s “The Filming of Modern Life”
The cinema has accompanied and transformed our history so thoroughly as to be inseparable from it.
The Intimate Art: Georgia O'Keeffe's Letters