Love Under Empire
Triple Canopy excerpts Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, translated by Ariana Reines. The book, originally published in France in 1999, is out this month from Semiotext(e).…
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Interview with a John
Remember how MetaFilter linked to Antonia Crane’s “Paying to Play: Interview with a John”? The piece inspired an interesting conversation that’s still going down over there. Check it out? “I…
Suspended Detachment
“I know that those things, that scarf, that painting, that kimono, that ring, that past self—whatever happens to them physically, they exist for as long as I can remember them,…
Grief as a Living Thing
“I’ve never read anything like it,” writes Morgan Macgregor in a LARB review of Sara Manguso’s The Guardians. “The prose also seems to include the reader by spinning relentlessly in…
Where Things Stand
Andrew Sullivan linked to Roxane Gay’s “Where Things Stand,” which revealed that nearly 90% of books reviewed in The New York Times were written by white authors. Amanda Hess also…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here’s the thing you guys, talking robot baby. The history of maps is one of my favorite things. A man-made object is about to leave the solar system for the…
Ben Lerner in The New Yorker
“In the name of clarity, a lot of authors offer what strike me as basically pre-fabricated structures of feeling, leaving no room for the reader to participate in the construction…
The Utopian Project
“In relation to the future, a poem is like a note sealed in a bottle and thrown into the sea.” Charles Simic writes on Poetry and Utopia for the New…
Cattle Haul
The latest story featured by Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading comes from National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage The Bones. The story, originally published in A Public Space,…
Writing for the Ear
“Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important…
Existential Ménage-à-Trois
Andy Martin, author of The Boxer and the Goalkeeper, writes about the woman called Wanda who ended the “bromance” between Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. “Camus was the new kid on the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Thinking about what existed before the big bang hurts my brain. How to kiss. Should the tides rise, San Francisco will look a lot more like I imagined it from…