Mapping the Unknown: Literary Defamiliarization in Our Pandemic Era

Mapping the Unknown: Literary Defamiliarization in Our Pandemic Era

Gabrielle Bellot on Viktor Shklovsky, the Risk of Life, and Art as a Way of Reencountering

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After <em>How to with John Wilson</em>, Will More Filmmakers Use the Tools of Lyric Essay?

After How to with John Wilson, Will More Filmmakers Use the Tools of Lyric Essay?

Matthew King on the Genre-Bending Portrait of Public Life

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Put Down That Flyswatter: Why We Need Flies to Exist

Put Down That Flyswatter: Why We Need Flies to Exist

Oliver Milman on Our Great Debt to Insects

By Oliver Milman | March 14, 2022

How To Leave the World Behind: On the Dreams of Utopian Groupies

How To Leave the World Behind: On the Dreams of Utopian Groupies

Adrian Shirk Considers the Perpetual American Desire for Better Worlds

By Adrian Shirk | March 14, 2022

Why, and How, We Form Beliefs: A Reading List

Why, and How, We Form Beliefs: A Reading List

Sarah Krasnostein’s Journey Through Religion and Philosophy

By Sarah Krasnostein | March 14, 2022

Making Space for Mistakes and Experiments, in Marriage and Writing

Making Space for Mistakes and Experiments, in Marriage and Writing

Francesco Pacifico on Writing (and Revising) Female Characters

By Francesco Pacifico | March 14, 2022

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The Huntington has acquired Eve Babitz’s archive.

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A new story collection is coming from George Saunders.

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Olivia Rutigliano on the New Adaptation of Walter Mosley’s Novel

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