If some people are freer than others in society at large, it is worth looking at the prison system to see if, within its confines, these differences are amplified.
Kitten Clone – Douglas Coupland
By eschewing a standard business profile, the book acts as a site of conflict and translation between a waning medium — print — and an ascending one — the internet.
Field Notes: New Developments in Slovakian Poetry
Since the end of the ’90s, phenomena have accumulated that have finally led to the fundamentally new form of Slovakian literature we know today.
The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing – Nicholas Rombes
When we are increasingly concerned about documentary technologies’ capacity for truth, it makes sense that the stories we tell might be concerned with the horror of too much truth, or of truth stripped bare.
I remember all my efforts to prepare to move forward, but I forget the jerky reverse, stop-and-go motion that made that eventual forward movement possible.
I find it both beautiful and sad how these great expectations can fail to pan out, and how people can still find life in the aftermath.
The True Nature of The 52 Places to Go in 2015
52 places to travel in a world that’s turned into what the architect Rem Koolhaas called junkspace.
Embedded in his encounters with himself amid piles of corpses is an ambitious attempt to breach the sublime with the flood of language in this novel.
Half a Lifelong Romance – Eileen Chang
Tragedy is a condition, rather than the failure to act heroically.
The artist Rammellzee used the term ‘lightdwellers’ to reference a generic societal elite. Decades later, ‘the lofts’ can do a similar job for a certain kind of New Yorker. Ditto for ‘condos.’