Books & Fiction
A New Kind of Adultery Novel
Sally Rooney’s début, “Conversations with Friends,” is a bracing study of ideas. But it’s even smarter about people.
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Octavia Butler’s Prescient Vision of a Zealot Elected to “Make America Great Again”
In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Butler’s “Parable” books may be unmatched.
Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies
Thirty years ago, many academics considered the study of popular culture beneath them. Stuart Hall helped change that.
This Week in Fiction: Cristina Henríquez on Immigration, Detention, and Missing Names
“Everything Is Far from Here” grew from a line that suddenly came to the writer: “On the first day, there’s a sense of relief.”
Fiction & Poetry
“American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin”
“It began with all the poetry weirdos & worriers, warriors, / Poetry whiners & winos falling from ship bows, sunset / Bridges & windows.”
“This Poem”
“This is the poem that cries on street corners / and plays at being lost. / This is the poem arranged at a tilt / so all the words slide off.”
“My Mother, Heidegger, and Derrida”
“My mother pointed out how the poor / have only potatoes for dinner, their faces / so rough they looked unearthed themselves.”
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“The Hostage”
“There was a lot that he didn’t know about robbing banks, and every moment was another opportunity to reveal his ignorance.”
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