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Emma Silvers

  • Notable San Francisco: 1/16-122

    This week in San Francisco … Monday 1/16: Join International Workers of the World activists and scholars at Green Arcade  for a discussion on the recent re-release of Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology, including 40 pages of previously unpublished material.…

  • Spotlight: Adrian Tomine

    Like most things I liked when I was sixteen, I first got into Adrian Tomine’s comics because of my older sister, who let me borrow her early issues of Optic Nerve. The series began as a set of self-published mini-comics, Xeroxed…

  • Lapham’s Bows to the Great Goddess

    “Arts & Letters,” the Spring issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, is perhaps the magazine’s most unabashed celebration of nostalgia yet, which is saying a lot for a publication that indulges as much in the work of Sappho and Seneca as it…

  • Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood Get Evangelical

    At a recent n+1 panel discussion, Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood discussed God as trade, unmetaphysical writers, and intellectualism versus how religion makes you feel.