Q&A with Guillaume Nicloux
In fact it’s not Michel Houellebecq who interests me, but rather Michel Thomas. It’s the human, not the writer.
View ArticlePaul Buhle
There’s an element of bohemianism that speaks to a sense of political futility or at least extreme difficulty of anything like political change. That’s where we are now.
View ArticleFrédéric Gros
Nietzsche didn’t walk because he wanted to rest, because he wanted to recover from the fatigue of writing. The only way for him to feel good was to go walking, so he set out into the mountains with...
View ArticleRobert Meister – pt. 1
In colloquial terms we say possession is nine tenths of the law — well the other tenth is reparations.
View ArticleRobert Meister – pt. 2
In California belief in the goodness of our state universities is best understood as a civic religion, which makes it difficult when faculty like me and Chris Newfield try to tell the public that its...
View ArticleChris Andrews
I read Bolaño first as a general reader, then as a translator, and finally as a critic.
View ArticleLori Cole
The questionnaire punctures the bravado of the manifesto, which is such a singular, almost bold, optimistic doctrine or document. The questionnaire allows room for doubt, ambivalence, dissent, and debate.
View ArticleHunter Kennedy
It never reached the level of aesthetic. That's like a craps shooter talking about his skill with dice. I was just hoping to get lucky.
View ArticleCaptives – Norman Manea
Captives speaks to Sebald’s call to stick within the register of memory, even if memory has been stripped of its supporting features.
View ArticleAndrew Hartman
The metaphor of war works from the assumption that there is no consensus, that there never was agreement to begin with.
View ArticleThe Wisconsin Blues
"Meet the state’s workforce needs” is a dangerous misreading of what it means for universities to provide a public benefit.
View ArticleThe Future – Marc Augé / Heroes – Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi
Neither Augé nor Bifo wants the future to be a dodge, and nor should we.
View Articleglo: Lauri Stallings and Mary Virginia Coleman
glo has this great persistence to it. I would probably be put on fire if I ask any less of myself, the world, human nature, the human condition --- no one would hang around.
View ArticleHarraga – Boualem Sansal
The canon of world literature should not just reflect a liberal-humanist position.
View ArticleThe Numero Group: Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley
We’ve had a manifest destiny mindset since the beginning. Our goal is to be the largest AND best independent catalog company in the world, which means making left turns at right turn only intersections.
View ArticleMartin Munro
Ultimately I am interested in Caribbean writing for itself, on its own terms. I am interested in it because it is interesting.
View ArticleThe Roar of Morning – Tip Marugg
The Roar of Morning is quite anti-climactic --- in a digressive and descriptive mode it falls well short of self-knowledge or it fails to intimate truths, those buried umbilical cords, that an...
View ArticleJoshua Bloom
Well, you know, nothing succeeds like success. Why do the Young Lords and the Red Guard and the Young Patriots and everybody else model themselves after the Party? Because they were super influential....
View ArticleJoshua Bloom (pt 2)
I think at a fundamental level, that’s the first thing for understanding the Party. The Party was about people trying to challenge the oppressive conditions that they faced and not being able to do it...
View ArticleFriedrich Nietzsche: Edu-hater
Why offer a set of reforms when your goal is to tear down the whole system of values upon which your current society is built?
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