Advertising Degree Zero: William Gibson's "Zero History"
This future is a scarier place, by far, than any that SF has yet imagined.
This future is a scarier place, by far, than any that SF has yet imagined.
The literary world tends to think of genre fiction in very short-hand terms, defined by rigid conventions, styles, plots, and readerships.
THE MEMOIR WAS ONCE a venerable literary genre — more compelling and immediate than biography, more inclusive than the novel. There was only one...
LUMINOUS, PENETRATING, AND UNCANONIZABLE, the writings of 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil were neither originally conceived as books nor...
It is neither an accident nor a disaster that humanity is now, for the first time in its history, a predominantly urban species.
"Few ever stop to ask how many lives just went up a supermodel's nose." Or got smoked in a bowl. Or rolled in a joint.
Ah, Middle Age. Ye despised state.
The number is highly debatable, but it turns out that, Facebook aside, the average person has about 150 friends.
It’s a moral dilemma described in devastating images of both his mother’s failures and the author’s own bottomless faults.
Since Wyoming is now popularly associated with Dick Cheney and Matthew Shepard's murderers, it’s good to see a more complex portrait of the territory.
A "ghostly reanimation" of the poet's textual presence; translation gives way to transposition, to citational graft and recycling.
Beauty linked to life and death.
It is almost entirely abstract.
King's technical expertise as a writer is almost impossible to ignore, regardless of how one feels about stories involving man-eating oil slicks.
Despite how much she has been dissected, analyzed, and worshipped, something about Marilyn Monroe remains forever elusive.
There’s a voice that, while still a bit controlled, opens on to something savage, even ugly.