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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

Post45 The Journal: Peer Reviewed

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