SMALL LIBRARY OF PROSE I REVISIT
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NOTABLE ESSAYS & MEMOIR
Albert J. Raboteau, Re-enchanting the World: Education, Wisdom, and Imagination ^
Alexandra Smith, Searching for a New Self ^
Andrés Cerpa, Therefore
Ann Lauterbach, Untitled (Event)
Ann Thomas, Three Essays
Anne Boyer, Not Writing
Anne Boyer, The Heavy Air
Anne Carson, Decreation: How Women Like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil Tell God ^
Anne Carson, Variations on the Right to Remain Silent ^
Annie Dillard, The Chase ^
B. D. McClay, With My Body I Thee Worship
Bonnie Nadzam, How to Disavow All That is False in the World
Brandon Shimoda, Winter Dwelling (fragments from a relationship)
Brenda Miller, The Hermit Crab Essay ^
Brenda Miller and Julie Marie Wade, Camera: A Collaborative Essay
Christian Bobin, Sovereignty of the Void
Christian Wiman, The Drift of the World
D. H. Tracy, Six Types of Clarity
Dan Beachy-Quick, Lyric Consciousness
Dan Beachy-Quick, A January Notebook
David L. Eng, The Value of Silence ^
Dawn Lundy Martin, 25 tiny essays on the value of forgetfulness and sleep
Edward Said, Reflections On Exile
Eula Bliss, The Pain Scale ^
Hilton Als, The Art of the Essay No. 3
Hilton Als, An Awful and Beautiful Light: On Joan Didion
James Baldwin, Nothing Personal ^
Jehanne Dubrow, Autoportret
Jo-Anne Berelowitz, Mourning and Melancholia in Memoir
John Cage, Lecture on Nothing ^
Joseph Brodsky, Less Than One ^
Kathryn Nuernberger, Medusa and the Invention of Spells
Kiese Laymon, World’s Finest Chocolate
Laurie Stone, Weather Conditions
Luis Buenel, Sounds (trans. by Abigail Israel) ^
Lydia Davis, Revising One Sentence
Marguerite Yourcenar, That Mighty Sculptor, Time (trans. by Walter Kaiser)
Maria Tumarkin, On the Need for Aesthetic Wildness
Mary Cappello, Why Lecture?
Mary Cappello, How We Escape It: An Essay
Mary Cappello, Moscow, 9/11 ^
Mary Cappello, Mood Rooms ^
Mary Cappello, Can Creative Writing Be Taught? ^
Mary Cappello, Merit Badge ^
Mary Cappello, Losing Consciousness to a Lost Art ^
Mary Cappello, For Anyone Interested in ‘What Makes Us Human’ ^
Mary Cappello, Getting the News: A Signer Among Signs ^
Mary Cappello, Squalor ^
Mary Ruefle, Lectures I Will Never Give
Osip Mandelstam, The Noise of Time trans. by Clarence Brown
Phillip Lopate, Writing Personal Essays, Turning Oneself into a Character ^
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Feeling Fucked Up: The Architecture of Anger ^
Rosmarie Waldrop, The Attraction of the Ground ^
Robert Cording, Cloud Shapes and Oak Trees
Renee Gladman, Five Things
S. A. Karpukhin, On Silence
Sara Levine, The Essayist Is Sorry for Your Loss ^
Sarah Manguso, Loss
Sarah Manguso, Perfection
Sheila Heti, A Common Seagull: On making art & mourning
Sumita Chakraborty, Essay On Thunder
Susan Tichy, Equal Meadows
Valerie Weigert, Tempo and Pacing for Microessays
Weston Morrow, The Territory Is Also the Map
Zachary Ostraff, The Lyric Essay as a Form of Counterpoetics
ON TRANSLATION
Anne Posten, How the Art—and Love—of Translation Relies on Intuition
Bill Stanley, Translation as talking to oneself: Milosz and Whitman ^
E. Tammy Kim, Long Division
Gina Apostol, A Speech of One’s Own
Gregory Ariail, On Reengaging with Franz Kafka’s Astonishing Worlds
Ilan Stevens with Peter Cole, On Sympathy, Eroticism, and the Practice of Revision in Translation
Johannes Göransson, Toward a Sensationalistic Theory of Translation
Lydia Davis, Notes on Translating a Children’s Book
Lydia Davis, Changing My Mind
Stanley Bill, Translation As Talking To Oneself: Milosz Makes Whitman Speak
Walter Benjamin, The Task of the Translator
ON POETRY, POETICS, AND POETS
A. E. Stallings + Adrianne Kalfopoulou, A Conversation
A. R. Ammons, A Poem Is A Walk ^
Abraham Smith and Shelly Taylor, Hick Poetics
Adrienne Rich, How Does a Poet Put Bread on the Table? ^
Adrienne Rich, Someone Is Writing a Poem
Alice Notley, The Poetics of Disobedience
Amiri Baraka, Expressive Language
Andrew Cutrofello, How Do We Recognize Metaphysical Poetry ^
Andrew David King, The doublespeak of texts and subtexts: indicting the found political poem
Andrew Epstein, Found Poetry, ‘Uncreative Writing,’ and the Art of Appropriation ^
Anne Carson, The Art of Poetry, No. 88
Audre Lorde, Poetry Is Not A Luxury ^
Audrey Russek, "So Many Useful Women": The Pseudonymous Poetry of Marjorie Allen Seiffert, 1916-1938 ^
Austin Allen, Landing On a Dream: The moon in poetry
Barbara Guest, Invisible Architecture
Barry Lopez and Charles Simic, Conversation on a Roadtrip, 1972
Barry Wallenstein, Poetry and Jazz: A Twentieth Century Wedding ^
Brian Reed, The Dark Room Collective and Post-Soul Poetics ^
CAConrad and Brenda IIjima, An Interlude on Poetics As Dirt
CD Wright, The New American Ode ^
Calvin Bedient, Against Conceptualism: Defending the Poetry of Affect
Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True
Carl Phillips, Another and Another Before That: Some Thoughts on Reading
Carl Phillips, The Art of Poetry, No. 103
Catherine Wagner, US Experimental Poetry, A Social Turn ^
Cathy Park Hong, Against Witness
Cecily Parks, On Erasure ^
Cedar Sigo, Stalked By Forms
Charles Olson, Projective Verse
Charles Simic, Mark Strand: Living Gorgeously
Chase Berggrun, Mostly His Apocalyptic Star Glitters Wondrously
Czeslaw Milosz, The Art of Poetry No. 70
David Mason, Incarnation and Metamorphosis: My theory of language
Denise Levertov, Some Notes on Organic Form ^
Derek Attridge, Poetic Rhythm ^
Derek Mong, Walt Whitman’s IPad
Dorothea Lasky, On Poetry, Peership, and Imagination: A Love Letter to Diane di Prima
Dorothea Lasky, A Belief in Ghosts: Poetry and the Shared Imagination
Dwight Garner, Sharon Olds (on breathing, the Pope’s penis, and the necessity of getting out of art’s way)
Eavan Boland, A Journey with Two Maps ^
Efe Duyan, Remembering a poet in exile: “Too dangerous to speak about freely”
Eileen Myles, Copying & Lying
Elisabeth A. Frost, Visual Poetics ^
Elizabeth Alexander, New Ideas About Black Experimental Poetry ^
Fred Moten, A Poetics of the Undercommons
Gregory Orr, Four Temperaments and the Forms of Poetry ^
Gwendolyn Harper, Eleven Pictures of Piznarik
heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, Impossible Word: Towards a Poetics of Aphasia
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Go Back and Fetch It: On Lucille Clifton
Ira Sadoff, The True and Untrue Confessions of Olena Kalytiak Davis
Jake Orbison, Masks: Confessional Poetry and The Twilight Zone
James K. A. Smith, The Gift of Not Knowing
James Longenbach, The Point of Poetry: Punctuation & Its Particulars
Joanna Drucker, Beyond Conceptualisms: Poetics after Critique and the End of the Individual Voice ^
Jason Gray, Twenty-First Century Lines
Jeffrey Pethybridge, Radical Versions of the Iliad: a notebook
Johannes Göransson, Bad Plath: Excess and Theatricality in Contemporary Poetry
Jon Riccio, Chaos Control: Persona and Received Form in Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler
Joseph Harrington, Docupoetry and archive desire
Julie Marie Wade, The Biography of a Poem
Katie Piper Greulich, Revisiting Pastoral I: Eye in Louise Gluck ^
Katy Didden, A Poetics of Tectonic Scale
Kenneth Goldsmith, Flarf is Dionysus. Conceptual Writing is Apollo.
Kenneth Goldsmith, Paragraphs on Conceptual Writing ^
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Our Girls: Notes on Poetry and Palestinian Motherhood
Lubna Safi, Jasmine Fingers
Lucy Ives, But Is It Concrete?
Lyn Hejinian, Continuing Against Closure ^
Lyn Hejinian, The Rejection of Closure ^
Lyn Hejinian, Two Prose Poems and an Essay ^
Marjorie Perloff, Frank O’Hara: Poet among Painters
Marjorie Perloff, Poetry on the Brink: Reinventing the Lyric
Marjorie Perloff, The Return of the (Numerical) Repressed: From Free Verse to Procedural Play
Marjorie Perloff, Frank O’Hara, a Poet Among Painters
Mark Holliday, Tony Hoagland and Second Thoughts ^
Martha Collins, On Syntax in Poetry ^
Mary Oliver, Diction, Tone, and Voice ^
Mary Szybist, On visual poetry ^
Mary Reufle, Notes On Tone ^
Mary Ruefle, On Theme ^
Mary Ruefle, My Private Property
Mary Ruefle, The Bench ^
Mary Ruefle, On Fear ^
Mary-Jean Chan, Lyric Hybridity in Rankine’s Citizen ^
Meena Alexander, Poetry: The Question of Home
Nathan Goldman, Can’t Keep A Deep Man Down: On Marvin Bell
Nick Ripatrazone, Out of the Wilderness
Nicole Rudick, Mutual Need and Equal Risk: On Dodie Bellamy
Oana Sanziana Marian, In the Time that Remains: Reflections on the Poetry of Derek Mahon
Omar Baig, Notes on Nonsense
Paisley Rekdal, Iphigenia in Afghanistan: Notes on Women and War
Paul Oppenheimer, The Origins of the Sonnet ^
Philip Metres, From Reznikoff to Public Enemy
Philip Metres, June Jordan’s War Against War ^
Rachel Eisendath, Object Lessons: Reification and Renaissance Epitaphic Poetry ^
Rachel Mennies, Less Than Certain: How to teach bewildering poems
Rachel Zucker, a homespun of questions pulled over a loom of gender and race with the voices of ancestral (mostly living) women speaking in the lacunae
Rachel Zucker, The Poetics of Wrongness
Rachel Zucker, On ‘[taking away taking away everything]’
Rachel Zucker, Rachel Zucker speaks to Darcey Steinke ^
Rae Armantrout, The Art of Poetry No. 106
Rae Armantrout, Poetic Silence ^
Raymond De Borja, Lineated Time
Reva Wolf, Ted Berrigan’s Poetics of Appropriation
Ron Silliman, A B C ^
Rosmarie Waldrop + Ben Lerner, New Poems ^
Sandra Beasley, Flint and Tinder—Understanding the Difference Between Poetry of Witness and Documentary Poetics
Sarah Ehlers, Jorie Graham’s Passion for the Reel
Shane McCrae, Quick, What’s the German Word for Friendship-Sickness?
Solmaz Sharif, The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasure
Stephanie Burt, Sestina!, or the Fate of the Idea of Form ^
Sumita Chakraborty, The Trouble You Promised: Reading Tracy K. Smith
Susan Howe, The Art of Poetry No. 97
Tan Lin, A Few Bibliographic Poems
Tan Lin, Anachronistic Modernism
Ted Berrigan, Sonnet Workshop, 1979 ^
The Volta’s Poetics Archive: Resources & Pedagogy
Tom Kozlowski, Sited: On Jenny Xie and the Fate of the Flaneur
Tony Hoagland, On Disproportion ^
Traci Brimhall, Roman Charity
Travis Macdonald, A Brief History of Erasure Poetics
Uche Nduka, The Beige Notes
William J. Harris, How You Sound??’ Amiri Baraka Writes Free Jazz
Yasuhiro Yotsumoto, Jottings on poetry and selfhood
Yvves Bonnefoy, The Art of Poetry No. 69
INNOVATIVE PROSE FORMS
Aaron A. Reed, 1979, The Cave of Time: A History of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Stories
Andrew Zornoza, Mirrors in the City of the Dead
Anne Carson, The Glass Essay ^
Anne Carson, Eros, the Bittersweet: An Essay ^
Anonymous, Index of Milosz’s Captive Mind for Young Readers ^
Barrie Jean Borich, Ames Hawkins, Kate Bradford, and Mary Cappello, Courting the Peculiar
Clark Coolidge, A Geology ^
Danielle Vogel, Letters for Renee Gladman’s The Ravikians: an ekphrastic companion
Don Delillo, Counterpoint: Three Movies, a Book, and an Old Photograph ^
Gelare Khoshgozaran, Airgrams ^
Gertrude Stein, Cultivated Motor Automatism: A Study of Character in Its Relation to Attention ^
J. J. Martin and Godzilla, The Thunder Lizard Speaks! An Interview with Godzilla ^
Jack Spicer, Second Letter from Admonitions
John Vincler, Grid Logic
Joanne Kyger, Letters From Lost and Found
Kate Bernheimer, Fairy Tale Is Form, Form Is Fairy Tale ^
Lauren Winner, Alphabetic Art
Lily Greenham, Lingual Music ^
Maria Damon & Rachel Blau Duplessis, Desiring visual texts: A collage and embroidery dialogue
Mary Cappello, Conjuring ^
Mary Cappello, Reading Room ^
Mary Cappello, Advent’s Unconscious
Mary Cappello, Objective Correlatives: A Triologue on Love ^
Peter Bamfield, Un Hommage à Thomas Pynchon’s Rainbow ^
Robert Venturi, Mal Mots: Aphorisms—Sweet and Sour—by an Anti-Hero Architect ^
Tan Lin, Disco as Operating System
Tristan Tzara, The 1st and 2nd DADA Art Manifestoes
VK McCarty, How to Write an Erotic Love Letter ^
Virgina Woolf, The Waves (an excerpt) ^
ON RACE, COLONIALISM, & NEO-COLONIALISMS
Adaobi C. Iheduru, Examining the Social Distance Between Africans and African Americans: The Role of Internalized Racism ^
Alycia Pirmohamed, Fog Theory: lost in the white gaze
Allen Feldman with Brad Evans, Histories of Violence: Living with Disappearance ^
Amiri Baraka, A Post-Racial Anthology?
Ana Lucia Araujo with Brad Evans, Histories of Violence: Slavery in America
Anne Anlin Cheng, The Melancholy of Race ^
Bayard Rustin, Black Power and Coalition Politics ^
Charles R. Lawrence III, The Id, the Ego, and Equal Protection: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism ^
Daivi Rodima Taylor and Zadi Zoukou, Mutual Entanglements
Danny Cherry Jr., White Like Me
Davon Loeb, On the Confederate Flag
David L. Eng and Shinee Han, A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia ^
David Featherstone, Black Internationalism, Subaltern Cosmopolitanism, and the Spatial Politics of Antifascism ^
Edward Kamau Braitewaite, History of the Voice ^
Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Nation Language ^
Fred Moten, Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh) ^
Garrett Felber, The Struggle to Abolish Police is Not New
George Yancy, Whiteness As Ambush and the Trasnformative Power of Vigilance ^
Ibrahim Muhawi, Bad Moon Rising ^
James Baldwin, If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
Jennifer Chang, On Forgetting and Other Natural Erasures
Jennifer Jackson and Martha Cothran, Black versus Black: The Relationships among African, African American, and African Caribbean Persons ^
John Demilio, Remembering Bayard Rustin ^
Jonah Mixon-Webster, The Hauntologies of Slavery
Joshua Edwards, Imperial Nostalgias
Julia Shiota, Passing
Kenneth Chan, The Construction of Black Male Identity in Black Action Films of the Nineties ^
Kevin J. Whetmore, Jr., The Tao of "Star Wars", Or, Cultural Appropriation in a Galaxy Far, Far Away ^
Laura M. Padilla, "But You're Not a Dirty Mexican": Internalized Oppression, Latinos & Law ^
Margaret G. Lee, Out of the Hood and into the News: Borrowed Black Verbal Expressions in a Mainstream Newspaper ^
Matt Bluemink, A New Language of Literature: Borges on Nationalism and Internationalism
Michael G. Cooke, Naming, Being, and Black Experience
Nathaniel Mackey, Other: From Noun to Verb ^
Nick Admussen, State Lines
Octavio Paz, Mexican Masks trans. by Lysander Kemp
Phillip T. Gay, A Vote Against Use of ‘African-American’
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Incarcerated Language
Sirene Harab, Naming Oppressions
St. Clair Bourne, The African American Image in American Cinema ^
Stephen Snyder, Freedom Schooling: Stokely Carmichael and Critical Rhetorical Education ^
Stuart Hall, What is This ‘Black’ in Black Popular Culture? ^
Tom Sleigh, In the Tank
Tunde Adeleke, Black Americans and Africa: A Critique of the Pan-African and Identity Paradigms ^
Vincent Brown with Brad Evans, Histories of Violence: Violence, Power, and Privilege
Yasmin Nair, So Long and Thanks for Nothing
Yuri Kochiyama, Then Came the War ^
FOR THOSE HAUNTED BY BABAS
Constantine Sedikides, Tim Wildschut, Jamie Arndt and Clay Routledge, Nostalgia: Past, Present, and Future ^
Cristina Vatulescu, Afterimages: Svetlana Boym’s Irrepresible Co-Creations ^
Emil Cioran, Degradation through work ^
Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theatre No. 9
Gordon Hodson and Kimberly Costello, Disgust, Ideological Orientations, and Dehumanization as Predictors of Intergroup Attitudes ^
Hannah Arendt, The Aftermath of Nazi Rule: Report from Germany
Herta Muller with Phillip Boehm, The Art of Fiction No. 225
Josef Skvorecky, The Art of Fiction No. 112
Leon Trotsky, Hitler’s National Socialism
Maria Romasco Moore, Memory Ghosts
Marianne Hirsch, The Generation of Post-Memory ^
Marianne Hirsch & Nancy K. Miller, Introduction to Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory ^
Michael Sarnowski, Exile, Escape, and Reprieve: Poetry of Displacement from the Russian Revolution to WW II ^
Noemi Marin, Slavenka Drakulić: Dissidence and Rhetorical Voice in Postcommunist Eastern Europe
Natasha Kurchanova, Osip Brik and the Politics of the Avant-Garde ^
Osip Brik, The Democratization of Art (trans. Natasha Kurchanova) ^
Osip Brik, Autonomous Art (trans. Natasha Kurchanova) ^
Osip Brik, On Khlebnikov (trans. Diana Matias) ^
Osip Brik, Mayakovsky and the Literary Movements of 1917-30, Material towards a literary biography (trans. by Matias) ^
Slavenka Drakulic, Cold War Turned Flavor War: On European Food Disparity, From East to West ^
Srećko Horvat with Brad Evans, Histories of Violence: Apocalypse Now
Svetlana Boym, From Cured Soldiers to Incurable Romantics: Nostalgia and Progress ^
Svetlana Boym, Scenography of Friendship: Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, and the anchovy paste
ON GENDER, SEX, & EROS
Adrienne Rich, When We Dead Awaken: Writing As Revision ^
Adrienne Rich, Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying ^
Audre Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action ^
Anne Carson, The Gender of Sound ^
Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger ^
Audre Lorde, I am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities ^
Barbara Welter, The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860 ^
Bronwen Tate, The Day and the Life: Gender and the Quotidian in Long Poems by Bernadette Mayer and Lyn Hejinian ^
Claire Dederer, What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
Craig M. Loftin, Unacceptable Mannerisms: Gender Anxieties, Homosexual Activism, and Swish in the United States, 1945-1965 ^
Elaine Scarry with Brad Evans, The Intimate Life of Violence
Gayatri Gopinath, Impossible Desires (intro to Queer Diasporas & South Asian Public Cultures)
Gloria Anzaldua, How to Tame a Wild Tongue ^
Helene Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa ^
Jackie Wang, Against Innocence: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Safety
Juan A. Suárez, The Puerto Rican Lower East Side and the Queer Underground ^
Joan Morgan, Why We Get Off: Towards A Black Feminist Politics of Pleasure ^
Jose Esteban Munoz, Performing Disidentifications (from Queers of Color & the Performance of Politics) ^
Judith Halberstam, An Introduction to Female Masculinity ^
Julia P. Stanley, Homosexual Slang ^
Kathy Acker, Rape by the Father (excerpt from Empire of the Senseless) ^
Kathy Acker, Before the Days of Dreaming ^
Kaitlyn Teer, The Maternal Gothic and Maternal Ambition
Kazim Ali, Genre Queer: Notes Against Binaries ^
Larissa Pham, Crush
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Our Girls: Notes on Poetry and Palestinian Motherhood
Maggie Nelson, A Note on Women and the New York School ^
Mary Cappello, Some Notes on My Sense of an Interior
Michelle Walks, Raising Queerlings: Parenting with a Queer Art of Failure ^
Moshe Morad, Queering the Macho Grip Transgressing and Subverting Gender in Latino Music and Dance ^
Myra McDonald, Muslim Women and the Veil ^
NourbSe Phillip, Dis_Place, the Space Between ^
Olivia Laing et al, On Marguerite Duras, the master of desire ^
Patrick Huber, A Short History of "Redneck": The Fashioning of a Southern White Masculine Identity ^
Richard Fay, Gayspeak, the linguistic fringe: Bona polari, camp, queerspeak and beyond ^
Robin Morgan, Goodbye to All That
Sirena Pellarollo, Queering Tango: Glitches in the Hetero-National Matrix of a Liminal Cultural Production ^
Suzanne Cesaire, Surrealism and Us ^
Zoe Pilger, The Hearts Are Ripe and Obsene ^
CULTURAL THEORY AND CRITICAL THEORY
Alan D. Sokal, Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity ^
Alan D. Sokal, A Phyicist Experiments with Cultural Studies
Andrew Culp, A Radical Cartography: Spatializing Power
Andrew Pepper, "Hegemony Protected by the Armour of Coercion": Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest and the State ^
Anis Shivani, Notes on the Ascendancy of Identity Politics in Literary Writing
Ann Pellegrini, Touching the past; Or, Hanging Chad ^
Antonio Lopez, The Meme of Memes: Information as Objects ^
Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, Ritual at the Birth of Kitsch ^
Charles Kurzman, Chelise Anderson, Clinton Key, Youn Ok Lee, Mairead Moloney, Alexis Silver and Maria W. Van Ryn, Celebrity Status ^
Christopher Chowrimootoo, Middlebrow Modernism: Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide ^
Daniel R. Nicholson, The Diesel Jeans and Workwear Advertising Campaign and the Commodification of Resistance ^
Danny Penny, The Irrelevant and the Contemporary
David B. Hinton, “Triumph of the Will”: Document or Artifice? ^
Diana Anselmo-Sequeira, Screen-Struck: The Invention of the Movie Girl Fan ^
Douglas Field, James Baldwin’s Life on the Left: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young New York Intellectual ^
Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Conflict ^
Geraldine Murphy, Subversive Anti-Stalinism: Race and Sexuality in the Early Essays of James Baldwin ^
Giles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, Intellectuals and Power ^
Guy Debord & Gil J. Wolman, A User's Guide to Détournement
Igor Yevin, Ambiguity and Art
James E. Karon, The Quantum Paradox of Truthiness: Satire, Activism, and the Postmodern Condition ^
James J. Kimble, Rosie’s Secret Identity, Or, How to Debunk a Woozle by Walking Backward through the Forest of Visual Rhetoric ^
Jean-Luc Nancy, Listening to Listening: The Making of the Modern Ear ^
Jeffery J. Williams, The Rise of the Theory Journal ^
John Cage, Silence ^
John Willinksky, Wittgeinstein’s Dictionary ^
Joshua Glenn, I’d Like to Force the World to Sing: The Making of a Yes Generation ^
Joshua Halberstam, Fame ^
Judith Roof, Fame’s Ambivalents ^
Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
Kathy A. Psomiades, The Marriage Plot in Theory ^
Kazim Ali, Genre Queer: Notes Against Binaries ^
Kenneth Goldsmith, The Writer As Meme Machine
Laura Grindstaff, Reality TV and the Production of 'Ordinary Celebrity': Notes from the Field ^
Linda Williams, Of Kisses and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies ^
Leo Max, Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept^
Mark De Silva, Points of Attack
Marco Wilkinson, Self-Speaking World
Martin Heidegger, The Origin of a Work of Art ^
Martin A. Danahay, Teaching Autobiography as Cultural Critique ^
Matthew Spellburg, Myth and Anarchy
Peter Kupfer, Classical Music in Television Commercials: A Social-Psychological Perspective ^
Peter Kupfer, “Good Hands”: The Music of J. S. Bach in Television Commercials ^
Peter Marin, The New Narcissism: Follies of the Human Potential Movement ^
Peter Marin, Sprititual Obedience: The Transcendental Game of Follow the Leader ^
Randall Patnode, "What These People Need Is Radio": New Technology, the Press, and Otherness in 1920s America ^
Richard Hofstader, Refections on Violence in the United States ^
Richard J. Callahan, Jr., Kathryn Lofton and Chad E. Seales, Allegories of Progress: Industrial Religion in the United States ^
Roland Barthes, Striptease
Roman Meinhold, A Critical Inquiry into Fashion (trans. by John Irons)^
Ronald L. Ives, You Don’t Have to Believe It ^
Sondra Bacharach and Deborah Tollefsen, You Complete Me: Posthumous Works and Secondary Agency ^
Scientific American issue 1924, Radio Notes ^
Stephen Eskilson, Consumption and Color ^
Sharon Marcus, Salomé!! Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, and the Drama of Celebrity ^
Tammy Whitlock, Gender, Medicine, and Consumer Culture in Victorian England: Creating the Kleptomaniac ^
Theodor W. Adorno, Progress or Regression: Lecture ^
Theodor W. Adorno, The Curve of the Needle (trans. by Levin) ^
Theodor W. Adorno, Society ^
Theodor W. Adorno, On Popular Music ^
Thomas Doherty, The Sincerest Form of Flattery: A Brief History of the Mockumentary ^
Timothy Melley, Brainwashed! Conspiracy Theory and Ideology in the Postwar United States ^
Tina Campt, The Lyric of the Archive ^
Tom Wolfe, McLuhan’s New World ^
Vannevar Bush, As We May Think
Vanessa Place, The Allegory and the Archive
Vanessa Place, After Ideology ^
Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Documentary Is/Not a Name ^
Tyler Malone, Thinking Is a Sickness of the Eyes: On Pessoa
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ^
Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History ^
Ward Sealey, Radio Blesses the Lives of the Blind ^
CRITICAL ESSAYS & REVIEWS
Aaron A. Reed, 1979, The Cave of Time: A History of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Stories
Alberto Ríos, Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility
Alexandra Smith, Writing as Performance: The Case of Tsvetaeva ^
Andreas Teuber, Making the Invisible Visible: Stanley Cavell’s Ear for Things ^
Anne Stiles, Literature in "Mind": H. G. Wells and the Evolution of the Mad Scientist ^
Becca Rothfield, The Thousand Darknesses of Murderous Speech by Paul Celan
Bethany Ladimer, Wartime Writings, or the Imaginary Lover of Marguerite Duras ^
CA Conrad, Kenneth Goldsmith Says He is an Outlaw
Dan Chiasson, Mother Tongue
David Joseph Belcastro, Voices From the Desert: Merton, Camus, and Milosz ^
De Witt Douglas Kilgore and Ranu Samantrai, A Memorial to Octavia E. Butler ^
Douglas Glover, The Novel as a Poem
Elizabeth Hardwick, Reflections on Fiction
Garrett Caples, Wittgenstein: A memoir
Geoff Dyer, The Most Comprehensive Sense ^
Ilan Stavans, Wrestling with Machado
Jeannette S. White, Baring Slavery's Darkest Secrets: Charles Chesnutt's "Conjure Tales" as Masks of Truth ^
Jeremy Driscoll, The Correspondence of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz: Monasticism & Society in Dialogue ^
Joseph C. Porter, The End of the Trail: The American West of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler ^
John Murillo, The Ethics of Confession
Joseph Epstein, Is Fiction Necessary? ^
Lotte L. S., “I Refuse to Review”: Literary Criticism and Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiography of Death
Lucy Bierderman, Genre, Form, Captivity, and Restoration: Mary Rowlandson’s Creative Writing
Marshall Cohen, Must We Mean What We Say?: On the Life and Thought of Stanley Cavell ^
Mary Cappello, Margaret Wise Brown and the Mystery of Mood
Namwali Serpell and Maria Tumarkin, Unethical Reading and the Limits of Empathy
Nils Michals, Rilke and Image in Letters on Cezanne
Nina Boutsikaris, On Very Short Books, Miniatures, and Other Becomings
Peter Filkins, The Poetry and Anti-Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz ^
Pierre Joris, Thoughts on anthology-making
Raphael Rubinstein, Gathered, Not Made: A Brief History of Appropriative Writing
Raphael Rubinstein, Varieties of Silence, and Near Silence
Richard Iadanosi, “I Am Nobody”: The Haiku of Richard Wright ^
Roger Reeves, The Uses of Memory
Ryan Ruby, A Heaven of the Book: On Friederike Mayröcker
Sylvere Lortinger, The Person Who Tortures is Me: Violence and the Sacred in the Works of Marguerite Duras ^
Taisia Kitaiskaia, Wild Enchantment: The Creatureliness of Barbara Comyns
Thomas Sayers Ellis, The New Perform-A-Form: A Page Vs. Stage Alliance
Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read A Book?
Wallace Shawn, Is Sex Interesting? ^
William D. Paden, Petarch as a Poet of Provence ^
AESTHETICA, ARCANA, ESOTERICA & OBJECT STUDIES
Alan Rauch, The Monstrous Body of Knowledge in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ^
Alberto Manguel, Conversations with the Dead ^
Alyn Williams, Light and Shade in the Miniaturist’s Path ^
Andrea Phillips, Walking and looking ^
Andreas Hyussen, Nostalgia for Ruins ^
Anthony J. Cascardi, Goya: Secularization and the Aesthetics of Belief ^
Anthony Travis, The Accidental Discovery of Mauve ^
Antoine Picone, Learning From Utopia: Contemporary Architecture and the Quest for Political and Social Relevance ^
Ariela Freedman, Charlotte Salomon’s Life or Theatre? A Melodrama? ^
Aviva Briefel, Spectral Matter: The Afterlife of Clothes in the Nineteenth-Century Ghost Story ^
Benvenuto Cellini, The Casting of Perseus
Camilla A. Inglemark, The Octopus in the Sewers: An Ancient Legend Analogue ^
Carole Fabricant, Rochester’s World of Imperfect Enjoyment ^
Caroline Bynum and Paula Gerson, Body-Part Reliquaries and Body Parts in the Middle Ages ^
Christopher A. Casey, Common Misperceptions: The Press and Victorian Views of Crime ^
Christopher J. Gilbert, If This Statue Could Talk: Statuary Satire in the Pasquinade Tradition ^
Claude Trevor, The Claque in Italy ^
Claudia Barnett, Painting as Performance: Charlotte Salomon’s “Life? or Theatre?” ^
Cynthia Hahn, What Do Reliquaries Do For Relics? ^
David Pinder, Ghostly footsteps: voices, memories, and walks in the city ^
Durs Grünbein, Childhood in the Diorama (trans. by Daniel Slager) ^
Edgar Munhall, Portraits of Napoleon ^
Erik M. Jensen, Taxation of Beards ^
Fanny Dolansky, Playing with Gender: Girls, Dolls, and Adult Ideals in the Roman World ^
Faya Causey Freyl, A Larva Convivalis in the Getty Museum ^
Francesca Tagliatesta, Iconography of the Unicorn from India to the Italian Middle Ages ^
Frederick Burwick, De Quincey and the Aesthetics of Violence ^
G. M. Meredith Owens, An Early Illustrated Timurid Miscellany ^
Giuseppe Merlino and Marguerite Shore, sophie calle: a lover’s monologue ^
Gottfried Mader, History as Carnival, or Method and Madness in the Vita Heliogabali ^
Hanneke Grootenboer, Treasuring the Gaze: Eye Miniature Portraits and the Intimacy of Vision ^
Helen J. McClenehan, Miniature Eye Portraits ^
Howard Risatti, The Contemporary Political Poster in Italy ^
Iwan Rhys Morus, Worlds of Wonder: Sensation and the Victorian Scientific Performance ^
Ira L. Mandelker, Religion, Sex, and Utopia in Nineteenth-Century America ^
J. N. Adams, Words for Prostitute in Latin ^
Jan C. Westerhoff, A World of Signs: Baroque Pansemioticism, the Polyhistor and the Early Modern Wunderkammer ^
jane levi, Melancholy and Mourning: Black Banquets and Funerary Feasts ^
Janet Hand, Sophie Calle’s Art of Following Seducation ^
Jason J. Morissette, Marxferatu: The Vampire Metaphor as a Tool for Teaching Marx's Critique of Capitalism ^
Jen Cadwallader, Spirit Photography and the Victoria Culture of Mourning ^
Joanna Russ, On the Fascination of Horror-Stories, including Lovecraft's ^
John Berger, Che Guevara Dead ^
Justyna Galant, Fashion Triumphant and the Mechanism of Tautology in Two Nineteenth-Century Dystopias ^
Jonathan Brody Kramnick, Rochester and the History of Sexuality ^
Katerina Batinaki, The Paradox of Horror: Fear as a Positive Emotion ^
Leigh Eric Schmidt, The Making of Modern Mysticism^
Lois P. Zamora, New World Baroque, Neobaroque, Brut Barroco: Latin American Postcolonialisms ^
Marianne A. Rule, Napoleon on St. Helena: Altered Plates ^
Mark Rose, Caring for the Dead ^
Martha Moffit Peacock, Paper as power: Carving a niche for the female artist in the work of Joanna Koerten ^
Martin McAlinden, Fighting the Noonday Demon – Priests and Acedia ^
Mary Cappello, Alone on the Floor with a Pile of Buttons ^
Mary Jeremy Finnegan, Catherine of Siena: The Two Hungers ^
Matthew C. Nicholls, Galen and Libraries in the Peri Alupias ^
Michael Cole, The Demonic Arts and the Origin of the Medium ^
Mickaël Bouffard, Aristocratic Standing and the Five Positions of French Noble Dance in Portraiture ^
Mignon Nixon, Dream Dust ^
Milman Perry, Whole Formulaic Verses in Greek and Southslavic Heroic Song ^
Nancy Mandeville Caciola, Revenants, Resurrection, and Burnt Sacrifice ^
Natalie Baker, Zombie Experts and Anarchy Imaginaries: Fantasies of 'Crises to Be' in Climate Change Futures ^
Nathaniel Cohen, Recovering Utopia ^
Norman H. Baynes, The Icons Before Iconoclasm ^
Ortha L. Wilner, Roman Beauty Culture ^
Paul Barber, Forensic Pathology and the European Vampire ^
Paul Westover, William Godwin, Literary Tourism, and the Work of Necromanticism ^
Peter N. Stearns and Timothy Haggerty, The Role of Fear: Transitions in American Emotional Standards for Children, 1850-1950 ^
Richard Elias, Political Satire in Sodom ^
Robert Temple, The Philosophy of the Fugue ^
Roger Paden, A Defense of the Picturesque ^
S. Etrim, Venus Calva and Venus Cloacina ^
Sandra Cheng, The Cult of the Monstrous: Caricature, Physiognomy, and Monsters in Early Modern Italy ^
Sandra M. Gilbert, Horror’s Twin: Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Eve ^
Sarah Tindal Kareem, Enlightenment Bubbles, Romantic Worlds ^
Serafina Cuomo, A Roman Engineer’s Tales ^
Sharon R. Sherman, Perils of the Princess: Gender and Genre in Video Games ^
Sheila J. Nayar, Arms or the Man I: Gunpowder Technology and the Early Modern Romance ^
Stephen Guy Bray, "Pulchrum Spargitur Hic Chaos": Crashaw's Meta-Commentary ^
Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll, Mnemosyne at the Asklepieia ^
Steve Reece, The Myth of Milman Perry: Ajax or Elpenore? ^
Shannon N. Conley, An Age of Frankenstein: Monstrous Motifs, Imaginative Capacities, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies ^
Super Mario Brothers 3 instruction booklet ^
Sylvie Muller, The Irish Wren Tales and Ritual. To Pay or Not to Pay the Debt of Nature ^
T. J. Clark, Clement Greenberg’s Theory of Art ^
W. Loran Crosten, Auguste and His Claque ^
Walter T. Hughes, A Tribute to Toilet Paper ^
William E. Wallace, Michelangelo’s Wet Nurse ^
Yelena Baraz, Pliny's Epistolary Dreams and the Ghost of Domitian ^
UNSHELVED
Carlos Cunha, On the Chronicle
Charles Bowden, The Wisdom of Ants ^
Charles Bowden, Torch Song ^
Christopher A. Casey, Common Misperceptions: The Press and Victorian Views of Crime ^
Chris Heath, The Serial Killer Has Second Thoughts: The Confessions of Thomas Quick
Dale Basil Martin, When Did Angels Become Demons? ^
Davide Stefanicci, Humility as a Virtue: Oral and Visual Religious Indoctrination to Purify the Female Gender in Italy in the Early Quattrocento ^
Gabriel Dean, “Every Man His Own Publisher”: Extra-Illustration and the Dream of the Universal Library ^
Helen Lewis, The Identity Hoaxers
Hilton Als with Mary Wang, It’s always so moving to see how art claims us out of a kind of loneliness.
John Dumbrell, Varieties of Post-Cold War American Isolationism ^
Joy Wilternberg, True Crime: The Origins of Modern Sensationalism ^
Jean Genet, Four Hours in Shatila ^
Kathryn Morris, Superstition, Testimony, and the Eighteenth-Century Vampire Debates ^
Kathryn Schulz, Why Animals Don’t Get Lost
Lennard J. Davis, Crips Strike Back: The Rise of the Disability Studies ^
Melissa Grunlund, From Narcissism to the Dialogic: Identity in Art after the Internet ^
Paul Rozin, Laura Lowery, and Rhonda Ebert, Varieties of Disgust Faces and the Structure of Disgust ^
Rebecca Schuman, The Franz Kafka Marriage Manual for Young Ladies
Richard Grant, A Sense of Chuck: In memory of Charles Bowden
Robert Anthony Siegel, The Ethics of Memoir: An Author Interviews His Mother
Ross Gay, Be Camera, Black-Eyed Aperture
Sarah Renee Marshall, Remote Control
Tan Tuck Ming, My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
Terrance Hayes, The Ride: Finding a Love That’s Gonna Last
Daniel Drage, The Cleft in the Rock: A Theology of Negative Spaces
Hannah Sassoon, A Witness to Survival
Katie Geha, The Assemblages of Jess
Nausikaä El-Mecky, Spectacular Destruction
Renée DiResta, Computational Propaganda