Writer Murray Browne looks back at Pynchon’s novel, once heralded by critics as “bonecrushingly dense,” in light of the age of Qanon.
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Gaston Bachelard’s 1958 classic The Poetics of Space offers a fresh way of thinking about our increasingly cloistered existences.
The white publishing industry locks arms to form a united front against writers and critics of color — proving the critics’ point, again and again.
The Democratic Party’s Situationist wing seizes power in a Zen koan coup d’etat.
Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 short story “Nevsky Prospect” opens with a paean to the vivacity of life on its titular street.
A feminist magazine attempts to bury a critical review of an opportunistic, racist, brownface novel. Writer Myriam Gurba tells the story.
There are many, many embarrassing photos of me during my teen years, but one of the biggest was […]
In Monique Quintana’s novella, Death itself feels like a character, always lingering around or communicating with the living.