How to Master the Culture Wars in Two Weeks
Presenting “How to Master X in Two Weeks,” a shortcut to projecting erudition and insight into the most pressing political issues of the day. In this installment we focus on two recent publications from Harvard University Press – Age of Fracture by Daniel T. Rodgers and Unmaking the Public University by Christopher Newfield.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
A Walk to Remember to Remember
A cursory look at the canon of Western literature reveals author after author mining the drama of human locomotion while constantly imbuing the act with new meanings and significances, so much so in fact that the history of literature begins to look like a history of walking.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily.
Uncreative Writing, Creative Reading
By forcing us to confront the unintelligible, the boring, the insipid, and the illegible, conceptual poetics gives us no choice but to circumvent unreadability and discover new modes of reading and new spaces for interaction with literary texts.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from Fiction Daily’s editors
Young Critics: Michele Filgate
Some of the best books that have ever been written are being edited or published as I type this. There are plenty of writers willing to take risks–to write books that speak to their own emotional truths. The future classics are being conceived of or worked on or published every year.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Whether we’re aware of it or not, theory taught us to read with incisive, thoroughgoing skepticism and reflexivity. It made us more rigorous, not less.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.