Google, Godwin, & the Philosopher’s Stone
Godwin’s conviction of the possibility of immortality, which only a few years ago might have seemed quixotic and a bit embarrassing, has come back into fashion.
The American Soldier in Arab Novels
Iraqi writers, by and large, have created worlds where the soldier’s perspective, either Iraqi or foreign, isn’t primary.
The Children’s Classic That Secretly Brought Existentialist Philosophy Into American Homes
Maybe there is another model for fantasy, one that does not simply eschew the Christian framework established by Tolkien and Lewis that so defines the genre, but complicates it, turning the focus away from destiny and back to moral choice, to human agency.
The dynamic of competitive youth women’s athletics is extremely weird and fertile and interesting.
Sharon Mashihi and Aaron Finbloom
If a conversation has rules, can it somehow go deeper?
On Haiti and the Resistive Imagination
The zombie of the Revolution has now infiltrated popular culture, history, and creative expressions.
Full Stop Quarterly: Limits and Listening
When one listens, one opens oneself to the world.
What we talk about when we talk about the Space Age.
George Lippard: Gothic Architect
Lippard’s journalism was lurid and fictionalized, his historical writing Gothic, his Gothicism sentimental, based on real events, and often intended — like his nonfiction — to instruct and improve society.
As evinced by the last four decades of DIY music, we already use the technology of tech-capitalists toward proto-revolutionary ends, even small-scale, revolutionary societies.