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Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story

Lock Your Doors?

by Ryan Chapman April 18, 2019October 19, 2022

A new homeowner reads two novels that revolve around surreal home-invasion scenarios, and considers what it is about his house that scares him.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, History, Story

‘What Is Missing Is Her Soul’: Women and Art, Girls and Men

by Alana Mohamed April 12, 2019October 19, 2022

In a new book, Camille Laurens examines the life of the model for Degas’ masterpiece, “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.” But there’s still so much we don’t know.

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

The Unreliable Reader

by Wei Tchou April 4, 2019October 19, 2022

In Esmé Weijun Wang’s book of personal essays, “The Collected Schizophrenias,” it’s the reader, not the writer, who is an unreliable narrator.

Posted inBooks, Current Events, Fiction, Story

A Citizen Is Obliged To Listen

by Ankita Chakraborty February 26, 2019October 19, 2022

When a refugee flees to another country and claims asylum, she is, in effect, petitioning the state to listen to her story.

Posted inBooks, Business, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

Maybe What We Need Is … More Politics?

by Aaron Timms February 19, 2019October 19, 2022

Recent books by economists who hope to “save capitalism” dismiss popular ideas as “just politics.” But why assume the popular is the enemy of the good?

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

Mothers of the Future

by Thea Prieto February 13, 2019October 19, 2022

In a new memoir, Sophia Shalmiyev attempts to reunite with her missing mother through scraps, signs, and surrogates.

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story

To Compromise With the Facts of Living

by Bradley Babendir February 6, 2019October 19, 2022

In Elizabeth McCracken’s new novel “Bowlaway,” the past and future are mysteriously entangled.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story

Edward Gorey: A Highly Conjectural Man

by Bridey Heing January 29, 2019October 19, 2022

When asked if there was “anything people don’t understand” about him, Gorey responded: “Yes. No. Yes. No.” A new biography by Mark Dery attempts to sort myth from reality.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Science & Nature, Story

At the Very Least We Know the End of the World Will Have a Bright Side

by Adam Boffa December 12, 2018October 19, 2022

Solarpunk, a new genre of science fiction, demands radical optimism of its writers and readers. It takes the apocalypse as given, but doesn’t assume the worst of people living through it.

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Fiction, Story

A Mysterious Crack Appears: Past Trauma and Future Doom Meet in “Friday Black”

by Alana Mohamed November 14, 2018October 19, 2022

In Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s fantastical short story collection, the strangest fantasy of all is that people try to act morally in a corrupt world.

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