Kim Cooper
This is a story about slippage between things that are objectively real
and things that are unknowable, about how one man’s memories
of a unique and troubled childhood….
Archive for September, 2011
Very Different Tonight: The Contagious Nightmares of Wilhelm Reich
Counterfactual States of America: On Parallel Worlds and Longing for the Law
Fiction takes us out of this world. A given work might set fabricated characters and events within the actual existing world, thereby altering it; or it might fabricate a new…
Hiroshima and the Nuclear Event
“The most spectacular event of the past half-century,” Thomas Schelling announced in his Nobel Lecture of 2005, “is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear…
Richard Wright and the Police
Richard Wright always coincides with his object. -Georges Charbonnier Toward the end of his life, after a long exile in France accompanied by intermittent harassment by American internal security agencies,…
P45 Peer Reviewed: The Launch
Essays by Jeffrey Clapp, Deak Nabers, and Paul K. Saint-Amour