Browsing Archive May, 2018
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Editorial Note 0
Introduction to Issue #12
At the heart of this new issue are three astonishing essays, by Philip Polefrone, Stephen Clingman, and Sean McCann. Each in their own way, they’re “reviews,” ways of ...
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Book Review 0
Rewriting Finance’s Fiction
De Boever, Arne. Finance Fictions: Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis. New York: Fordham UP, 2018. On April 23rd, 2013, the Associated Press Twitter account ...
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Essay 1
Fugitive/Narrative: Some Starting Points
1. In 1979, in the newspaper La Stampa, Primo Levi published a short story entitled “The Fugitive.” Given Levi’s own experience, it was not, as might have been ...
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Book Review 0
The Soul of Man Under Neoliberalism: Walter Benn Michaels and the Salvation of Modernist Art
Romances, maudlin dramas, shallow homilies, which trifle with so-called (though falsely so) noble sentiments, but in fact make the heart enervated, insensitive to the stern precepts of duty, ...
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Essay 0
Finance Politics
Paul Krugman’s recent column in the Times illuminates the central forces and salient features of late capitalism, not just the digital kind. He doesn’t acknowledge that these forces and ...
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Essay 1
How Not to Write on Cosmopolitan Alexandria
The message in Lawrence Durrell’s massive Alexandria Quartet is easy to make simplistic. The city, he might have said, is a whore. Cities, of course, especially when they ...
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Essay 0
Palestine and the Recomposition of the Normal
Zawya Cinema is located in downtown Cairo and promotes “the work of young Egyptian and Arab filmmakers …. [giving] special attention to the concept of Education and Cinema”. ...
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Essay 1
Climbing by the Book; Or, Seneca Rocks
Take my title as you would any of those route names in which there is a pun or double entendre that refers, at the same time, to some ...
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But Who Is the Dreamer? Twin Peaks: The Return
For the last twenty years David Lynch has been making different iterations of the same story: someone isn’t who he thinks he is. Each of his films in ...
