Marginalized Work, Innovative Critique
How might experimental forms of criticism better serve marginalized works? Excerpts from a roundtable discussion.
Myths over History: the Strange Story of 21st Century Traditionalism on the Far Right
Geopolitics as a field is catnip for Traditionalists and others attracted by the high-end and fatuous.
Mind Melding Across the Genre Divide
To choose the “we” narrator is inherently political. The collectively narrated novel is fairly new—to literary realism, anyway.
Most of the time we become through ambivalence—not caring either way—in an ill-fitting place of unfulfilled desire. Essays on ambivalence and forgetting.
A generation of highly original thinkers whose commitment to their work was not limited to the fickle favors of the research and education sector. An all-too-brief introduction.
The statue was renamed, or named twice: the Dionysus-Sardanapalus. Each name is a mirror of itself and the opposite. The statue embodies the unstable relationship between history, narrative, and artifact.
Big cats being trafficked through rural towns near the border of the American south was just plain realism.
Should We Believe in Autofiction?
What if there is a great distance between an author’s real life and the way it’s represented on the page? What kind of accountability, if that’s the case, should the reader expect from the author?
How White Racists Dream: Metapolitics and Fascist Publishing
To understand these publishers, these people, is to understand how white nationalism functions.
Positions of the Sun — Lyn Hejinian
Does Language poetry have a public? If not, and for want of one, whose interests does it serve instead?