Godwin’s conviction of the possibility of immortality, which only a few years ago might have seemed quixotic and a bit embarrassing, has come back into fashion.

The progress to be made, then, is to be sentenced to the book, go through the door, dive into the black hole.

You could also say that it was her most transgressive, subversive move to forego revenge, content instead to disappear.

I think a novel is the very best creative form for showing what the passage of time can be like.

The progress to be made, then, is to be sentenced to the book, go through the door, dive into the black hole.

You could also say that it was her most transgressive, subversive move to forego revenge, content instead to disappear.

The book should’ve been called anything other than DEAD GIRLS.

Caspers’s prose unifies form and content in a spectacular way as she writes the facts of grief, doing justice to both its devastation and transcendence, the sublime surreality it bestows on the world through the mere fact that one must continue to live in it.

I think a novel is the very best creative form for showing what the passage of time can be like.

By virtue of being the child of a migrant, Lorraine Hansberry understood something deep about all these spaces that were supposed to be hopeful.

The dynamic of competitive youth women’s athletics is extremely weird and fertile and interesting.

The Mantle is one of the monsters in Monsters, Inc. It’s a monster, but a lovable one. And one day I will tame it, because right now it’s sure as hell riding me around.

Godwin’s conviction of the possibility of immortality, which only a few years ago might have seemed quixotic and a bit embarrassing, has come back into fashion.

Iraqi writers, by and large, have created worlds where the soldier’s perspective, either Iraqi or foreign, isn’t primary.

Maybe there is another model for fantasy, one that does not simply eschew the Christian framework established by Tolkien and Lewis that so defines the genre, but complicates it, turning the focus away from destiny and back to moral choice, to human agency.

The zombie of the Revolution has now infiltrated popular culture, history, and creative expressions.

Novels should have killed poetry. Television should have killed radio. Digital should have killed paper.

The Mantle is one of the monsters in Monsters, Inc. It’s a monster, but a lovable one. And one day I will tame it, because right now it’s sure as hell riding me around.

Is it possible that the usual (understandable) insistence that atheism is simply a product of experience or reason in some “pure” sense has led to a neglect of the shape of atheism as a tradition?

Theory and chakirah-driven Talmud study are both methods of abstraction that, dissatisfied with the singular event, seek to uncover the more fundamental actors and structures at play.