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 ...
On May 28, 2018 / By James LivingstonDe 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 ...
On May 28, 2018 / By Phillip R. Polefrone1. 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 ...
On May 28, 2018 / By Stephen ClingmanRomances, 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, ...
On May 28, 2018 / By Sean McCannPaul 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 ...
On May 28, 2018 / By James LivingstonThe 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 ...
On May 28, 2018 / By May HawasZawya 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”. ...
On May 28, 2018 / By Sarah HawasTake 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 ...
On May 28, 2018 / By Mark SandersFor 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 ...
On May 28, 2018 / By Tim Kreider“Where’s all this dust coming from? It feels like all the dust in the world’s in this house.” “What’s wrong, Ikbal? Why are you complaining again?” “Dust, Kemal ...
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