A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing
I hope, by writing this, language can jar a wound.
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...moreKimberly Grey discusses her new collection, SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE OF FEELING.
...moreWhat a fitting end to the postmodern literary experiment. Or are we just getting warmed up?
...moreThe collection enacts—even performs—its own coming into being.
...moreIrena Yamboliev shares a reading list to celebrate LOOKING WAS NOT ENOUGH.
...moreMy gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
...moreAuthor María Sonia Cristoff and translator Katherine Silver discuss INCLUDE ME OUT.
...morePoet and author Nanos Valaoritis discusses the political and cultural situation in Greece today.
...moreJenny Boully discusses her new book, Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life, construction of voice, occupying liminal spaces, and editing with sincerity.
...moreAs Sentilles makes clear, she is against the wars the United States is currently involved in, and war in general, but she’s critical of what that means.
...morePoet and essayist Jennifer S. Cheng discusses her collection House A, working “in the dark,” and the idea of home.
...moreBite that apple, open that jar at your own risk and see how your garden grows, how hopeful you remain. Paradise is, after all, blissful self-ignorance.
...moreSo much of politics is symbolic speech in the service of the syncopations of the lives we actually live. But the ways we gather to vote is with our bodies. It’s the dance that goes along with those rhythms.
...moreElegy cannot protect us. It is merely a contained space for us to prowl, and to prowl in a performative manner.
...moreIn honor of the upcoming centennial birthday of French literary theorist and philosopher Roland Barthes, Hermés is releasing a limited-edition scarf designed in his honor. The New Yorker will gladly demystify that commodity for you.
...moreHow is it possible that even when I know nothing about a novelist’s life I find, on reading his or her book, that I am developing an awareness of the writer that is quite distinct from my response to the work? At the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks explores why, despite the Death […]
...moreThe New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
...more“Separation” expresses the paradoxical intersection of the instantaneous and the enduring.
...moreAt The Book Bench, a moving exploration of Roland Barthes’ diaries, focusing especially on his unique handwriting: “Reading someone’s handwriting can be incredibly intimate and revealing, perhaps especially in an age of e-mail and texting. The confines of font streamline and depersonalize emotionality, in contrast with the romance of thoughtful script or the tragic desperation […]
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