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Why We Keep Waiting for Godot

Why We Keep Waiting for Godot

On the Enduring Popularity of a Bleak and Difficult Play

By Shannon Reed | August 30, 2017

Reading Jane Eyre While Black

Reading Jane Eyre While Black

The Privilege of Escapism is Not Allowed for Me

By Tyrese L. Coleman | August 28, 2017

Boxing is Always in Crisis: On Joyce Carol Oates, Floyd Mayweather, and Conor McGregor

Boxing is Always in Crisis: On Joyce Carol Oates, Floyd Mayweather, and Conor McGregor

Nick Ripatrazone Revisits On Boxing 30 Years Later

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 25, 2017

Writing About Infertility in a World that Sees Childless Marriage as Tragedy

Writing About Infertility in a World that Sees Childless Marriage as Tragedy

Ayobami Adebayo on Infertility in the Nigerian Novel

By Ayobami Adebayo | August 23, 2017

On the Dark, Wondrous Optimism of Ray Bradbury

On the Dark, Wondrous Optimism of Ray Bradbury

Gabrielle Bellot Discovers Worlds Within and Without

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 22, 2017

The Unreality of Coming of Age

The Unreality of Coming of Age

Waking Dreams in Conversations with Friends and The Answers

By Clare Sestanovich | August 21, 2017

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How Far Can Fascist Satire Go?

By Tobias Carroll | August 21, 2017

The Reluctant Spiritual Autobiographer   

By Adrian Shirk | August 21, 2017

Pursuing the Artfully Naked "I": The Myth-Making of Kathy Acker

By Chris Kraus | August 18, 2017

Air Travel: From Majesty to Drudgery in 100 Years

Air Travel: From Majesty to Drudgery in 100 Years

From Saint-Exupéry to DeLillo, the Way We Write About Flight

By Ellie Robins | August 18, 2017

What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power

What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power

Political Poems Use Language in a Way Distinct from Rhetoric

By Matthew Zapruder | August 16, 2017

What Does it Mean When We Call a Key a

What Does it Mean When We Call a Key a "Slave"?

On the Power and Responsibility of Metaphor

By Peggy Shinner | August 14, 2017

The Useful Dangers of Fairy Tales

The Useful Dangers of Fairy Tales

Because Sometimes the Wolf Shows Up Uninvited

By Amber Sparks | August 11, 2017

On Nanni Balestrini, the Most Radically Formalist Poet of the Italian Scene

On Nanni Balestrini, the Most Radically Formalist Poet of the Italian Scene

Both a Literary witness in the Theater of Conflict and an Actor on the Stage

By Franco “Bifo” Berardi | August 11, 2017

How Much of Einstein's Theory of Relativity is in the Writing of Virginia Woolf?

How Much of Einstein's Theory of Relativity is in the Writing of Virginia Woolf?

Gabrielle Bellot on the Bloomsbury Writer's Fixation on Contemporary Science

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 10, 2017

Toward a New Climate Change Genre: First Impact Fiction

Toward a New Climate Change Genre: First Impact Fiction

Ashley Shelby: The Apocalypse is Now

By Ashley Shelby | August 9, 2017

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