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…
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Adam Keller
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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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…