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Candy from Strangers: A Conversation with Jennifer Egan

  • Liz Button
  • April 6, 2022
We can try to perform our inner lives, but we can't actually reveal them. We can create a simulacrum, which is so much of what I see on social media, and that simulacrum is entertainment. It’s exciting because we all love the whiff of authenticity, and the more mediated our culture feels, the more we crave it, but we can't actually give it away. We cannot actually break through the barrier of our individual aloneness.
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Black Kids in Space: Afrofuturism and Mainstream Comedy

  • Jada F. Smith
  • November 4, 2020
We have to lead with our imagination, not with preconceived limitations.
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Lower Orbits: Remembering Gherman Titov

  • Christine Spillson
  • August 3, 2017
His story is more than just a story about space, but also a story about history and how it moves. How time and space bend, burn, warp, and ignore.
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • July 5, 2017
Over at The Walrus, Fatima Syed looks to build space in popular culture for depictions of different types of Muslims. With a sinking feeling, Kristen Arnett looks inside herself and finds nothing…
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My Weekend with the Harakakukua

  • Brandon Hicks
  • June 25, 2017
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This Week in Books: Generation Space: A Love Story

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • April 10, 2017
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and wisdom,…
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Syria, or, “Day in the Life”

  • Argyle C. Klopnik, Esq.
  • April 10, 2017
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tinfoil Astronaut

  • L.M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
  • November 13, 2016
Every time I leap there is a chance I will fall, and every time I fall there is a chance I will finally crack my head open like a Faberge egg and luminous black spiders will crawl out to mark the outline of my body with blinking stars and black thread.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • January 29, 2016
This week, we have two stories of time machines and space stations, but mostly of people who clean up messes. Amber Sparks’s second collection of short stories, The Unfinished World,…
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Nietzsche the Space Man

  • Ava Kofman
  • December 30, 2015
It is often said that who controls the past controls the future but Nietzsche is one of the first to anticipate the power of speculation—that he who controls the future, controls the present.
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Just Some Jokes

  • Brandon Hicks
  • November 29, 2015
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The Saturday Rumpus Review of The Martian

  • Louise Fabiani
  • October 24, 2015
It is the story of an astronaut stranded on Mars for about a year, all by himself.
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