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Asa Drake
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I Thought America Was the Thief: Mastery and Assimilation in Esther Lin’s “Cold Thief Place”
Lately, in my social media feed, I’ve seen a James Baldwin quote surface between news stories and advertisements: “You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This…
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Embodiment as a Sensorial Practice in Saretta Morgan’s Alt-Nature
Morgan practices the language of collective and enumerated ecologies . . . lexicons we often consider distinct, without an ecotone.
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Human and No Less Miraculous: The Craft of Explication in Eugenia Leigh’s Bianca
Within Bianca, the speaker must choose the life she has over and over again, as a way forward—not as a stoic rendition of the eternal return of the same, but as desire.