How an otherwise high-minded social reformer preserved and perpetuated her white supremacist worldview.
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Failure to Cooperate
The indignity and discomfort of being accused of theft: a short story about a long shift at the coffee shop everyone loves to hate.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
On Not Being Able to Read
In law school, they told me I wouldn’t be able to read anymore. That the pleasure of the text, like a lover in a non-law degree, would slowly grow opaque to me.
Posted inBooks, Story
Angrily Experiencing the Best Days of Our Lives
Ukrainian author and poet Serhiy Zhadan writes about resisting corruption and coping with loss in a society that is spiraling senselessly into conflict.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
City on a Hill
A dementia patient’s daughter begins to question her own grasp on reality.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Religious Iconography of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
A vast range of political, historical, and religious influences went into Margaret Atwood’s dystopia, including one unexpected logo.
Posted inFiction, Quotes
Law and Order, Coffee Shop Edition
Susan Read’s short fiction centers on a Kafka-esque interrogation in the back room of a coffee shop — you know, the one where they wear the green aprons — that’s a stinging indictment of the byzantine policies, procedures, and psychology of being a low wage employee.
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Considering the Novel in the Age of Obama
Have “postmodern” and “postwar” have become outmoded as classifications for novels? Lorentzen suggests it’s more useful to look at trends in fiction relative to the administration they were released under. During Obama’s, he says, novelists looked to answer questions of authenticity. During Trump’s, he anticipates dystopian narratives.
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The Rub of Rough Sex
Chelsea G. Summers considers the ways in which outwardly ‘progressive’ men like former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman use kink as a cover for abuse.
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Lying Down in the Dirt: An Interview with Denis Johnson
“I thought I’d never publish these things. I thought it was important for me to hide the fact that I’m not right in the head.”
