Persecution – Alessandro Piperno
Like inspecting the colon when symptoms all point to emphysema, Piperno seems to lose track of his purpose in order to demonstrate his capacity to examine.
Eva Illouz sets out to do for emotional suffering and romantic love what Marx did for commodities.
Most stories are about individuals caught in the politics of their surroundings — it’s just more obvious when it’s about Palestine.
The title is an understatement: the real story told here is the story of the world, and how we live in it.
If Swensen brings us into contact with ghosts in Gravesend, it is by means of these subterranean poems concealed in the unconscious of their printed counterparts.
Growing Up Absurd – Paul Goodman
“Socialization to what?” is a radical question. But it’s also fairly easy to gloss over under certain social circumstances.
The Fifty Year Sword – Mark Danielewski
Once it has been established that our assumptions about reading are arbitrary, to keep issuing reminders without demonstrating how literature might be approached differently makes the effort seem like gimmickry.
For all his supposed nihilism and self-proclaimed untaggability, Eliot’s story is archetypal.
We witness a character endeavoring to recreate the past in the vast country of the present, knowing all along that it is futile. But why should futility be discouraging?
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City
It’s a bad time to be an Arizonan.