Quiet on the Border
...twice. Borders are tedious and boring and empty, but also you might die, you never know, anything can happen. Borders are where the pretenses of modernity come apart, where even...
Spirits in the Material World
...--From the Report on Spiritualism: Of the Committee of the London Dialectical Society (1873) "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any...
The Irrelevant and the Contemporary
...die. Found in the morning on the floor of a boat after being impaled in the chest by a swordfish while night fishing. Or fragment of my bloody shirt found...
Fan Fiction
...turn queer, kill each other, and, sometimes, die. A typical issue of the New Inquiry solicits critics who engage with their objects from above. With Fan Fiction, we’ve decided to...
Snake Plissken's Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
...always, decided to defer. Indefinitely, straight out to the fogged horizon and beyond, straight through my life and past my death. For I may die, but this quantity will not,...
Some Kind of Exile
...so scary, I thought I was going to die. And then our driver just started the car and drove away, and he was cursing them, calling them vermin. These people,...
Post-coloniality Sells
...hand, readers pick on them quite effortlessly. Maybe it’s better not to be aware, though! For me, the comparison with Achebe is interesting because you’re doing something different. For example,...
Don't Look Now
...original Times piece—how could this young woman’s neighbors have let her die when the police stood ready to help—has been answered in different ways, but the question has remained the...
Seeing and Nothingness
...perversity." -- Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1912) , couples quarrel and old men die in the next room. He overhears confessions that make him question the...
Desecration Hardware, 2 (The Strand Antiqued Mirror Collection)
...even obscenely large, knowing they would have to be cut again if we didn’t want to introduce a dangerous eurythmia, because even if we couldn’t die, an inconstantly vibrating heart...
Reading Sofia Samatar: Vallon
...other things, a repository of the bearable, a witness to silence. Jissavet desires two things: to live forever and to die properly. * Even though I’ve been trying to convince...
Sunday Reading
...food." "Parker took the dog to an alley in Hawthorne, ran over it and left it to die." "I'm not worried anymore; give me some cocaine." “Essentially it's life support...
Kill Rock Stars
Jeff Jackson’s new novel is one we’ve all heard before
The Plague Years
...violence as their disease. What they expect to die of is this. To use medical terminology seems apt when addressing the invisibility of the cause and the prognosis of those...
I Decide the End
An interview with Elaine Kahn about her new book of poems, Romance or The End
Sunday Reading
...pipelines threaten democracies and the planet sanitizing the truth: when clean water interventions fail sex work, moral panic, migration, anti-trafficking we have poetry / so we do not die of...