An Inventory of Losses – Judith Schalansky
If there is evidence that everything lost, burnt, drowned and gone extinct can eventually be researched, rediscovered and recovered, don’t we lose the skill and courage to fight the unfathomably roaring monsters that gulp up part of our worlds?
At the Edge of the Night – Friedo Lampe
The Hesperus Press edition of Friedo Lampe’s AT THE EDGE OF THE NIGHT raises the possibility that a lost German classic could well be overshadowed by its author’s extraordinary life story.
Is that a sort of equation for inviting the imagination in — wonder + weirdness? Maybe. Maybe not. But it helps me register and engage
As we look to philosophers, our sense of failure only grows in intensity.
With the matched rise of the far-right and mass antifascism, there has been a critical need for scholarship that helps create a vital living history. A number of academics, journals, and publishers have started to take this seriously.
Because the story happens just the way it happens, chickens live on.
The Gaddis I like best to think of is a God-haunted aristocrat. Thrown pearl-clutching into a fallen world, he gathers himself and understands it as his task to recognize what instances of the eternal still obtain, among things melted into air.
Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From – Sawako Nakayasu
Through tongue-in-cheek revelries, “some girls” disturb the myths of origin, genre, and gender.
“I am thinking about the body a lot and all of the time. The body is where the story starts.”
Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry: Art, America, and the Mom in Pop – M. I. Devine
The totality of Devine’s work is steeped in an American mythos to reclaim the synergy of pop songs, poetry, and photography for our own contemporary imagination.