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Unexpected Duo: The Haunting of Infrastructure

Ai JiangAugust 21, 2021

The Haunting of Hill House & Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention This week’s novel choices, The Haunting of Hill House (1959) by Sh...

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Unexpected Duo: Consumption & Sexual Desire

Ai JiangAugust 14, 2021

Goblin Market & The Importance of Being Earnest *Contains Spoilers* I think one of the most common metaphors in literature for sexual desire, ...

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Unexpected Duo: The Patriarchy, Confinement, & The Domestic Sphere

Ai JiangJuly 31, 2021

The Yellow Wallpaper & Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been *Contains Spoilers* This week rather than novels, we'll be taking a look at tw...

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Unexpected Duo: The Fluidity of Culture & The Rigidity of Race

Ai JiangJuly 17, 2021

Their Eyes Were Watching God & Oroonoko Race and culture are sensitive topics and are often explored through innumerable perspectives across hist...

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Unexpected Duo: Trauma Through Iconic Imagery & Individual Experience

Ai JiangJuly 3, 2021

The Best We Could Do & Maus I/II Unlike the novels Beloved and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous that we explored in one of the previous weeks, The...

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Clones, Intelligence, Art, and What It Means To Be Human:

Ai JiangJanuary 26, 2021

Never Let Me Go & The House of the Scorpion The work of Nancy Farmer and Kazuo Ishiguro, The House of the Scorpion (2002) and Never Let Me Go (2005...

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The Transmission of Intergenerational Trauma:

Ai JiangJanuary 4, 2021

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous & Beloved Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous centers on the story of Little Dog, a young Vietnamese Am...

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The Tragedy and Comedy of Misunderstandings

Ai JiangDecember 20, 2020

Atonement & The Comedy of Errors No matter which period in time, we humans are no stranger to misunderstandings. Yet, various works of literature...

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The Aesthetics of Love: The Black Prince & On Beauty

Ai JiangDecember 6, 2020

It's interesting to see the way that the past and present intersect with each other, but what I find even more fascinating is the way that the literature of the...

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DANCING WITH ETTA

Ai JiangOctober 15, 2020

You would think that something attached to threads moves in a jerky manner that resembles Pinocchio's clumsy walk, but her movements are smooth and graceful, wh...

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Fiction

Clack Clack Clack

Collections

The Ill-Advised Trip of an Italian Plumber

Poetry

Fuck Marry Kill

So It Goes in the Summer of 1993

Get Off My Lawn & While You’re Doing So Don’t Judge Me

Flash Fiction

Third Date Is When You Tell ‘Em

My Skeleton Wants Out

Ted’s funeral is held at McDonald’s

Reviews

A Review of Will We All Still See Each Other Afterward

Hanging in an Alien Sky: a review of “Death Egg” by Nathaniel Duggan

A Review of I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Interviews

An Interview With Abigail Rivera Ramirez

ALL MY GENERATION WANTS: an interview with Austin Davis

Find the Shard of Beauty: An Interview with Rebecca van Laer

Columns

The 21 Best Small Press Books From 2021

Writer of the Week: Tanner Ballengee

Writer of the Week: Jeff Schneider

Unexpected Duo: The Haunting of Infrastructure

Unexpected Duo: Consumption & Sexual Desire

Unexpected Duo: The Patriarchy, Confinement, & The Domestic Sphere

Unexpected Duo: The Fluidity of Culture & The Rigidity of Race

Unexpected Duo: Trauma Through Iconic Imagery & Individual Experience

Clones, Intelligence, Art, and What It Means To Be Human:

The Transmission of Intergenerational Trauma:

The Tragedy and Comedy of Misunderstandings

The Aesthetics of Love: The Black Prince & On Beauty

DANCING WITH ETTA

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