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Krisztina Tóth’s Dystopia at Home
I’m casting aside all my half-written drafts as well as the obligations that keep me from revising and finishing them to write about Krisztina Tóth’s…
 • Milena Billik
Jacek Dukaj's "Ice": a mini-review
Yes, it’s a brilliant novel but, no, it did not need to be this long.
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Cozy Catastrophe
You’re healthy until you’re not.
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Five: Perfect Short Surreal
in five imperfect short annotations
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Autofiction and Literature of Diminished Expectations
What if we applied a "She Unnames Them" approach to autofiction?
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A Footnote to Le Guin's Malafrena
Juvenilia, roots of ideas, and the bones in the ground
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Orphic Effort: Czapski's Proust, Karpeles's Czapski
This is now.
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Dreaming and Devouring
Over the past two months, two quotations have been on my mind, bumping into each other with the mind insisting on a connection between them even as they…
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Catherine Lacey's Imaginary Countries
I have just finished Catherine Lacey's Biography of X (is there a “The” in the title or not?) and am writing from the limbo of not knowing what to reach…
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Reading in the Sentimental Age
Reading in the Sentimental Age
non-required reading: essays and reviews
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