Mary Esteve
Collected Uncollected Articles
The Daily Planet
Mark Seltzer
Pynchon’s Malta
David J. Alworth
Dead Pledges: Debt, Horror, and the Credit Crisis
Annie McClanahan
“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…
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…