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Adam Keller

Adam Keller is a Wesleyan graduate currently based in Oakland, California. He’s a founding editor of REELYDOPE and used to write for The Argus.
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    Watching Firewatch

    Olly Moss, a graphic designer whose sparse, vivid posters have brought him a lot of attention recently, has taken his distinct style to the gaming world. Firewatch, a narrative video game about two “rudderless fortysomethings” working in the Wyoming wilderness,…

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    Humorously Numerous Luminous Beings

    Good news for Star Wars fans: Swiss data scientists have analyzed the entirety of the Star Wars expanded universe (books, television shows, games, etc.), and the collected tie-ins contain an insane 21,647 characters spread out over the course of thirty-six millennia. The scientists…

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    “Those Guys”

    At Seven Scribes, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib interviews Mychal Denzel Smith about his new book, Invisible Man, Got The Whole World Watching. Among other things, they discuss black intersectionality, sneakers, and the problems with representing oneself as an “ally” in a public…

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    The Library, and Step on It

    Four days ago, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest turned twenty; if you had been reading a page a day since it came out, by now you could have read it over 6.5 times. Despite its age and length, the novel…

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    Nabokov²

    If Jesse Eisenberg plays you as a meddler in the personal affairs of geniuses, how do you respond? If you’re David Lipsky, you double down. His extensive review of Letters to Vera, a collection of Vladimir Nabokov’s letters to his…

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    Nosetalgia

    At the Paris Review, Dan Piepenbring revisits a century-old Japanese short story called “The Nose” (not to be confused with the Gogol story). Connecting it to contemporary narcissism and self-documentation on social media, Piepenbring makes the case that Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s creepy tale…

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    War and Peace at the American University

    At American universities, administrative bureaucracies too often deny students a voice in their own education; for the New Yorker, Jennifer Wilson puts a spotlight on the opposite extreme. Tolstoy College was founded at SUNY Buffalo in the late 60s as…

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    Paul Lisicky on Flannery O’Connor

    Writing for the Atlantic, Paul Lisicky recalls two Flannery O’Connor short stories that taught him to love her work. Although critics often highlight O’Connor’s harshness toward her characters, Lisicky says these stories transcend the stereotyped image of her “little punishment…

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    Sarah Palin, the Transcendentalist

    From Lincoln’s famous love of quoting Shakespeare to George Bush’s prodigious reading habits, American politics have always mingled with the literary pantheon. Now that Sarah Palin is back in the news for her endorsement of Donald Trump, Jeet Heer traces…