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…
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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…
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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,…
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Race and Racelessness in Ed Park’s Personal Days
A group of relatively young office workers struggle to make sense of their lives as their nameless company undergoes economic restructuring. The workers each have distinct personalities and eccentricities, at…
