Mary Esteve
Peer Reviewed

The Daily Planet
Mark Seltzer

On Patricia Highsmith
Articles by Mary Esteve, Mark Seltzer,
& Michael Trask
Introduction by Tom Perrin
Co-edited by Mary Esteve
and Tom Perrin

Pynchon’s Malta
David J. Alworth

Dead Pledges: Debt, Horror, and the Credit Crisis
Annie McClanahan

“Window Seat”: Erykah Badu, Projective Cultural Politics, and the Obama Era
On the afternoon of March 13, 2010, neo-soul singer Erykah Badu walked though Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, the site of John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination. Rarely meeting the eyes…

Counterfactual States of America: On Parallel Worlds and Longing for the Law
Fiction takes us out of this world. A given work might set fabricated characters and events within the actual existing world, thereby altering it; or it might fabricate a new…



