And now an adult in his thirties, but with only 15 years of living to show for that… […]
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When we use the word dark in literary character descriptions, the mind has been conditioned to associate it with […]
In his short story collection La derrota de lo real (The Defeat of the Real), Pablo Brescia presents […]
Driving southbound on the derelict eastern shore of the Salton Sea, you arrive in Niland, California and keep […]
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. Hide on the promenade, etch a postcard. Everyone who’s […]
The book is small and unassuming. You could slip it into the back pocket of your jeans. The […]
1. I want to tell you of a painting by Jusepe de Ribera, a 17th-century Pietà kept in […]
You hear a story so engrossing, you end up living inside it. Oedipus attempted to flee this fate, […]
Certain words jump, spasm out: CONTINUE READING OPENS IN PDF Joanna Walsh is the author of Hotel, Vertigo, Grow […]
In the opening passage of his influential essay “Necropolitics” Achille Mbembe asks “[w]hat place is given to life, […]