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Extra Hidden Life, among the Days
Hillman plays with the post-human—a hypothetical, ecological state following the extinction of humanity—but never abandons...
There is magic in the poetry of Rocket Fantastic. Bodies are gendered and more-than-gendered. Humans...
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Let Us Now Speak of Extinction
Containing over two hundred and thirty exceedingly short works of fiction, with very few exceeding...
Merging crime, espionage, and absurdist fiction, French author Pierre Mac Orlan (born Pierre Dumarchey in...
Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld
Katharine Haake provides a palliative for the shortage of thoughtful apocalyptic literature with Assumptions We...
Largely ominous and somber in tone, the concise, intelligent fiction contained in Sleeping Dragons will...
At its most basic level, Sonata is a thought experiment. It asks: What if...
In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees
It’s easy to slip into In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees, but not easy...
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Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Even within the Indigenous community, identity is a contentious topic, with reasons rooted in a...
This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton
The scale by which Sexton extends the territory she covers as a poet, practicing her...
This is a book that wrestles with the expansive ideas of life and death as...
Rants from the Hill, Michael P. Branch’s collection of humorous, sly essays is easy to...
For Savich, there is no difference between that which is learned in the world and...
The philosophical attitude of existentialism so perfectly fits our time, you'd think it was invented...