What is genuine love? What is manufactured love? Is there even any sense in distinguishing the two?

Is noise a condition from which, once exposed, one cannot recover?

Obviously people take breaks, people burn out—who knows how long I’ll actually last. But aspirationally, there’s no end.

Barskova, throughout her career, has used her historical research as the starting point for creative works, producing opportunities to breathe new, imaginative life into an archived past. 

Is noise a condition from which, once exposed, one cannot recover?

Barskova, throughout her career, has used her historical research as the starting point for creative works, producing opportunities to breathe new, imaginative life into an archived past. 

Even with his cosmic horror operating on a trans-dimensional scale, we are centered on his characters as they struggle through pain, moral dilemmas, and fraught relationships.

Emar reminds us that neither in books nor in life do we ever have direct access to reality, but that this can serve as a liberating restraint, an invitation to create.

Obviously people take breaks, people burn out—who knows how long I’ll actually last. But aspirationally, there’s no end.

What does it mean to be the first generation born in a new country, on very old and beautiful land still reeling from colonialism and Partition? There was no map, and still isn’t, for how to contextualize my place in this tumultuous history.

What do you wear to the greatest crime scene of the twentieth century?

In the first world, we learn to be extremely afraid of anything that disrupts the hegemony of the ego.

What is genuine love? What is manufactured love? Is there even any sense in distinguishing the two?

Dundy’s novels fit our times well while also existing blissfully without any of this baggage. Her characters are often selfish and reckless, but there’s nothing forced in these stories.

In this sensitively observed collection, the freedom to define oneself is achieved not only through the rebellion against cultural constraints, but also the embrace of the provisional nature of identity.

No one can truly count on not ending up a montage of old photos, accompanied by piano music, a Hollywood voiceover, or a share button.

In the immortal and ominous words of Prince Buster, “Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think.”

“The Ostrich is the Key for the Future Development of all Mankind!”

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