Columns
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Written in Ink
In a powerful essay at The Establishment, Evelyn Deshane discusses rejecting the medical narrative around transitioning, and how tattoos allowed them to reclaim their own body: When the physicality of my gender—that “place” that could be home—feels out of reach, tattoos…
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Notable Chicago: 8/12–8/16
Friday 8/12: Join Rebellious Magazine founder Karen Hawkins and contributors Rachel Berg Scherer, Lisa Farver, Molly Harris, and Princess McDowell for a rousing night of readings and rebellions, followed by cocktails. Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m., free. Saturday 8/13:…
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On the Road
In his monthly series “The Lives of Others” over at the Paris Review, Edward White introduces us to globe-trotting Turkish writer, Evliya Çelebi, and the esoteric but lively book of travel stories he penned almost four centuries ago: Evliya so adored…
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Anti-Blackness in Sci-Fi Publishing
Less than two percent of science fiction stories published in 2015 were by black writers. And a recent study found that black speculative fiction writers face “universal” racism—more damning evidence demonstrating the institutionalized racism in book publishing, and the importance of…
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Textbooks obfuscate the past, making science seem a smooth and cumulative process.
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Ghost in the Machine
At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Professor Ted Underwood talks about why Digital Humanities, the new discipline he’s often associated with, doesn’t exist: It’s true that [Digital Humanities] can be aligned with managerial thinking—administrators like it. It can also…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
You should read the New York Time’s intense and epic reporting on the splintering of the Arab World and 13 years of the Iraq War. How will Pokemon Go change cities (I hate 2016)? Elsewhere: Geoff Manaugh on lost landscapes. Not to…
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The Rumpus interview with Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek discusses the forthcoming The Best Small Fictions 2016, the invisibility of anecdote, and why the art of transition is the art of the short story.
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Chris Kraus + Jill Soloway
Chris Kraus’s experimental, cult classic I Love Dick has been adapted for TV by Jill Soloway, and it’s time to revisit and scrutinize Kraus’s use of the slur “kike,” and indeed Kraus’s sense of her own Jewishness. In the Los…
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The Literary Value of Bodybuilding
With the pinnacle of human physical achievement on full display at the Summer Olympics, enjoy this article about writing literature about the ins and outs of bodybuilding.
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“Meat Is Murder,” the Video Game
The Smiths and PETA have released a video game in a collaborative effort to fight the violence of industrial agriculture’s treatment of livestock. Taking its inspiration the song “Meat Is Murder,” This Beautiful Creature Must Die asks players to fight to save chickens,…
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Remembering Killed-Off Characters
In an epic confessional letter at Lit Hub, author Stuart Nadler mourns all the characters he’s abandoned, maimed, and murdered for the sake of the grueling writing process. These lost creations and their universes live on in his memories and drafts…