Tag: literature

Columns

Brains on Drugs

John Semley

June 14, 2023

How consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.

Archival Frictions

Sadie Graham

June 13, 2023

Painting a fuller picture of lesbian experience.

Bad Romance

Elia Cugini

May 30, 2023

Erotic fiction is in a rut.

A Luso-Tropical Holy Grail

Meg Weeks

May 25, 2023

A classic of Brazilian modernism gets its due in a new translation.

Of Monsters and Men

Rhian Sasseen

April 20, 2023

What to do with the art of monstrous men?

Thinking Like a Mountain

Madeleine Crum

April 06, 2023

On Tom Comitta’s ecological fiction.

The Stranger Within

Abdelkebir Khatibi

March 22, 2023

The exile in the language of the colonizer.

The Ghost at the Feast

Rachel Pafe

March 16, 2023

On Susan Taubes, Jacob Taubes, and the limits of literary biography.

Drinking from the Original Fountain

Suleiman Al-Bustani

March 08, 2023

Suleiman Al-Bustani brings Homer into Arabic.

Little Boy Lost

Kim Hew-Low

March 02, 2023

Can Australia’s tradition of lost child stories be rewritten?

A Good Death

Kristen Martin

January 31, 2023

Instruction manuals for living written by the dying.

Hong Kong Literature’s Growing Pains

Jaime Chu

January 11, 2023

The city’s Anglophone writers are caught at a crossroads.