Eli S. Evans: Is That It

From The Simpsons, Fox Broadcasting Company by Amy E. Wendling The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism, by Kevin Floyd, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 270 pp. Of the many striking features of Kevin Floyd’s excellent study, The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism, certainly the most...

The old bridge in Mostar being rebuilt, 2003, photograph by Donar Reiskoffer by Jason Dittmer Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal, by Gerard Toal and Carl T. Dahlman, Oxford University Press, 488 pp. Bosnia Remade is a book a long time in coming and yet absolutely timely, taking as...

Slaughterhouse 5.5, photograph by Alev Adil From New York Magazine: A cranky ostrich in a rumpled suit, Kurt Vonnegut might seem an odd fit for the staid Library of America. (His advice to young writers? “Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.”) But Vonnegut, like...

The Catcher in the Rye was released on July 16, 1951 after a ten-year incubation and a contentious publishing process...

The Descalations of Will Self | by Geoff Nicholson

Los Angeles Review of Books

I’ve been thinking about the novelist in the lunatic asylum, the one who decides to write a novel that describes the whole world and everything in it.

From Barnes and Noble Review: “All money represents theft,” wrote the yippie guru Jerry Rubin. “Shoplifting gets you high. Don’t buy. Steal. If you act like it’s yours, no one will ask you to pay for it.” Like Abbie Hoffman, whose Steal This Book! argued that it was immoral...

Learning to read Ulysses means tracing a path through its strangeness...

by Gregory Jusdanis The world is text. Mallarmé and Flaubert described this possibility at the end of the nineteenth century and Derrida proclaimed it again more recently. But now we can say that the world is literature. It is turning literary through the Internet. What is taking place today...

The myconymic apprenticeship would serve as a point of access to human existence...

“Ahem!” said the Mouse, with an important air, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1907 From Threepenny Review: It may be that Carroll’s tale has deeper roots in the human psyche than its nursery reputation might suggest. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland does not...

From Image Text: Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing #40, “The Curse,” is a product of the complex history of race relations within the feminist movement. It presented a powerful portrait of the experience of women living under patriarchy to a mostly male audience of comic book readers. This audience, most...