The Pandemic and Zizek’s ‘Pandemic!’ and Zizek
How much worse can it get?
What Would a 21st-Century Federal Writers Project Look Like?
A new Federal Writers Project could work to make our digital legacy comprehensible for future readers.
This is the experience of waiting: wanting to be doing something but knowing it won’t mean anything—the meaning is what we’re waiting for.
Marginalized Work, Innovative Critique
How might experimental forms of criticism better serve marginalized works? Excerpts from a roundtable discussion.
Families Fall Apart While Friendships Flourish in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet
At heart, Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer ask us: what holds people together who are living through this political moment of breakage?
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.
Impossible Demand: Utopic Poetry
Reading poetry has felt like a ridiculous use of my time and a necessary one.
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.
We are not dealing with the end of the human species so much as we are dealing with the end of narcissism. If we want to keep on living on this earth, we have to deal seriously with others’ painful memories.
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.