Browsing Category Essays

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  Essays

  Coping with Chaos: Unreadable Avant-Garde Fiction and the Art of Political Conversation

  How do we talk about Tristano when every copy is different? The same way we talk about the world.

  By Travis Mushett
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  Essays

  Kunkel’s “Utopia or Bust”: A Review

  Ben Kunkel is bringing sexy Marx back. It's an imperfect but important start.

  By Niral Shah
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  Essays

  A Roomful of Shooters and Nothing to Shoot

  Inside the Dallas Safari Club’s Annual Hunting Convention.

  By Joshua Williams
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  Columns

  You, Too, Dislike It: Rust Cohle Revisited

  Philip Larkin keeps it real.

  By Alex Howe
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  Essays

  For Children and Sensitive Readers

  Stalinist Russia was a tough place for an absurdist poet, but Daniil Kharms knew you can't kill a pseudonym.

  By Alex Kalamaroff
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  Columns

  You, Too, Dislike It: A Story Slowly

  Frank Stanford for president.

  By Alex Howe
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  Essays

  Let’s Stop Mansplaining Eastern Europe

  Despite what the Western media says, the uprisings in Bosnia and Ukraine are more than a "collective nervous breakdown."

  By Sara Nović
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  Columns

  You, Too, Dislike It: Line-Babble Expressed

  James Franco: more than a pretty face.

  By Alex Howe
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  Essays

  MFA vs. NYC vs. n+1?

  n+1's new book surveys the landscapes of NYC and MFA, but what of the independent magazine culture beyond them?

  By Travis Mushett
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  Columns

  You, Too, Dislike It: Comparing Notes on Being Ourselves

  Are you guys hanging out? I mean, we're talking. Mike Young read your GChats.

  By Alex Howe
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  Essays

  Against Orientation

  If the debate about human sexuality is going to get anywhere, we need to stop talking about "orientation."

  By Caspar
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  Columns

  You, Too, Dislike It: Self vs. Self

  Melissa Broder is working on herself right now, you know?

  By Alex Howe