The recent publication of Tolstoy’s The Gospel in Brief (in a new translation by Dustin Condren) calls for a renewed investigation of the political, intellectual and religious…
As more aspects of our lives are digitized, literature is an increasingly crucial means of expressing, understanding, and preserving places and their influences.
Photo: The Moonshiner's Daughter, N. Brock, 1900 "I was usually left with her while both families went to church on Sabbath mornings and well remember being…
(via John Foster) On sense and subjectivity in the poetry of Dan Beachy-Quick We fear that we can’t communicate our thoughts or experience to others. When…
Via Literalab Operatic Lives: “Isadora Duncan” (1942) In Nice it was raining. Apollo and Diana stood at the curb, covered by black raincoats. When the automobile…
As more aspects of our lives are digitized, literature is an increasingly crucial means of expressing, understanding, and preserving places and their influences. At the…
As more aspects of our lives are digitized, literature is an increasingly crucial means of expressing, understanding, and preserving places and their influences. At the…
(via tsevis) We fight for data because corporate media, blogs, and hacker pronouncements alike tell us that information is power, and that anarchic explosions of data…
A Review of China Miéville’s Embassytown Over the course of a career which has produced eight novels, a collection of short fiction and, a non-fiction book on…
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.