Certain words jump, spasm out: CONTINUE READING OPENS IN PDF Joanna Walsh is the author of Hotel, Vertigo, Grow […]
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In the opening passage of his influential essay “Necropolitics” Achille Mbembe asks “[w]hat place is given to life, […]
“The sinking sun ripped shadows from everything, creating elongated skeletons of darkness that were almost comically menacing.” Here’s […]
Explorer, travel writer, occultist and cannibal, Willie Seabrook had the sort of lively CV that one doesn’t see […]
Like so many others before and after him, Jörg Fauser was an outsider in Berlin. To this day, […]
I am in the middle of translating into English the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann’s Frankfurter Vorlesungen [Frankfurt Lectures], […]
During one of his public speaking engagements, recorded as An Audience with Quentin Crisp, Crisp was asked how […]
The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online Eds. Houman Barekat, Robert Barry and David Winters New York: OR Books, […]
I had never heard of the German Modernist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker before picking up this slim account of […]
The late season is Stephen Hines’s first collection of short stories. It’s bleak. Close. A mirror in a […]
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