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Issue 11: The Potential of Cliché
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Peer Reviewed Articles

Cottagecore Bob: Cliché and Queer Sanctuary in Robert Glück’s Garden Writing

10.28.26

Kate Schneider

For the Love of Work: Reading for the Cliché

10.28.26

In Raven Leilani’s 2020 debut novel, Luster, twenty-three-year-old Edie goes on a first date to an amusement park with Eric, a married white man twice her age. After a month of…

The Uses of Caricature in the Western Muslim Novel 

10.28.26

Siraj Ahmed Sindhu

Under the Sign of Cliché: A Lover’s Discourse, A Lover’s Discourse, A Lover’s Discourse…

10.28.26

Olivia Sutherland

Cliché’s Cringe: Aesthetic Judgment in Percival Everett’s Erasure

10.18.26

Connor Spencer

Bernadette Mayer’s Photographic Counter-Memory

10.15.26

Claire Grandy

The Thinking Novel: Theme-and-Variations Form in the Contemporary Novel of Ideas

10.07.26

Benjamin Paul

Toward a Poetics of the Detainee

09.09.26

John Steen

Seeing Past Consumption: Race and Species in the Slaughterhouse

08.17.26

Akash Belsare

The Blues Brothers, Tammy Wynette, and the Long Denouement of the 1960s

08.17.26

Andrew Hoberek

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Recent Uncollected Essays

Peer Reviewed

Bernadette Mayer’s Photographic Counter-Memory

Claire Grandy

Peer Reviewed

The Thinking Novel: Theme-and-Variations Form in the Contemporary Novel of Ideas

Benjamin Paul

Peer Reviewed

Toward a Poetics of the Detainee

John Steen

Peer Reviewed

Seeing Past Consumption: Race and Species in the Slaughterhouse

Akash Belsare

Peer Reviewed

The Blues Brothers, Tammy Wynette, and the Long Denouement of the 1960s

Andrew Hoberek

Peer Reviewed

Side Hustle: College Sports and the Future of Academic Labor

Joseph Darda

Peer Reviewed

Big Color Analytics: Privatization, Precarity, Pantone

Lida Zeitlin-Wu

Peer Reviewed

Toward a Trans Fag Phenomenology: the Orientation(s) of Desire and the Afterlives of Lou Sullivan

Lee Mandelo

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