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Coming Soon: A Cluster on Patricia Highsmith
Later this fall in Peer Reviewed, four articles on Patricia Highsmith will be considering: Highsmith & weaponized chickens (Michael Trask) Highsmith & Superman (Mark Seltzer) Highsmith & tiny candlestick holders…
Peer Reviewed Articles
Contemporaries Essays
“What the ghost wants”: Kevin Young’s Ekphrasis
Stefanie Wortman
Looking at ekphrasis in this way can help us to see it as another in a series of projects to undermine or complicate the centrality of self in the lyric.
Contemporaries Essays, Uncategorized
Loving Miéville’s Sentences
Joel Burges
What does it mean to love your object of critique, especially when you know better?
Peer Reviewed Articles
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Window Seat”: Erykah Badu, Projective Cultural Politics, and the Obama Era
On the afternoon of March 13, 2010, neo-soul singer Erykah Badu walked though Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, the site of John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination. Rarely meeting the eyes…