Ultimately, it feels as if it’s the critic, in this case, not the movie or “society,” who’s trying to reduce the girl and the father to single, limited archetypes… It feels, even, for all practical purposes, as if it’s the…
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Ultimately, it feels as if it’s the critic, in this case, not the movie or “society,” who’s trying to reduce the girl and the father to single, limited archetypes… It feels, even, for all practical purposes, as if it’s the…
Goodbye to Issue 51 staff, hello Issue 52 staff.
If a joke is to survive the journey into another language, if it is to hit the mark even when its cultural context can no longer be taken for granted, its point may need to be adjusted or somehow re-sharpened.
by Amy Feltman All the elements of this novel that could usher in clichés instead somersault through our expectations.
by Jaime R. Herndon Life stories with humor interspersed in them, not stories of hobos or lists of things you don’t want to hear in a drugstore line that aren’t really funny.
by Javier Fuentes We have come to know him as an author who thrives on constraint; here we are granted access to Perec in his freest incarnation.
by Michael Gibney Gray matter in hand, Berlin Reed makes quick work of showing us that he is not just another enthusiastic hobbyist—no, he’s elbows-deep in a craft that is obviously not for the lily-livered.
The staff of Issue 51 is proud to announce our 2013 contest winners.
by Beth Livermore To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Swann’s Way, curator Antoine Campagnon borrowed from the Biblioteque Nationale de France a selection of the author’s notebooks, manuscripts, and galley proofs to “provide unique insight into Proust’s creative process and…
by Mary Mann A lot of modern dance is intentionally boring. It is willfully boring because we modern people need it to be. We have no time for boredom otherwise.
by Meghan Flaherty The identities of the message-leavers and the intended recipients remain a mystery. Harlem is merely trying to provide a record. To catalogue certain of these bits of text as emblematic of a neighborhood perilously in flux. To…
Issue 50 contributor John Nieves’s first book, Curio, has won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award Judge’s Prize. “Elegy on an Epigraph” is part of the manuscript. It will be published in early 2014.
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