Contemporaries

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“What the ghost wants”: Kevin Young’s Ekphrasis

Stefanie Wortman

Looking at ekphrasis in this way can help us to see it as another in a series of projects to undermine or complicate the centrality of self in the lyric.

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Loving Miéville’s Sentences

Joel Burges

What does it mean to love your object of critique, especially when you know better?

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The Dave Show

Tim Personn

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Cloudbusting

Very Different Tonight: The Contagious Nightmares of Wilhelm Reich

Kim Cooper

This is a story about slippage between things that are objectively real
and things that are unknowable, about how one man’s memories
of a unique and troubled childhood….

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“We’ll eat you up we love you so”

Warners Gone Wild

J. D. Connor

Personal Days

Race and Racelessness in Ed Park’s Personal Days

A group of relatively young office workers struggle to make sense of their lives as their nameless company undergoes economic restructuring.  The workers each have distinct personalities and eccentricities, at…