Quick Hits
April 26, 2010
Drifted toward Dragons: Utopia Today 13
by J.C. Hallman
It’s fair to characterize the last five hundred years of human civilization as a history of not-getting-the-joke of Utopia.
April 13, 2010
The Road: A Comedic Translation (Part 5) 1
by Jacob Lambert
Yes, said the nameless man to the nameless child, gazing out at the ruin caused by some massive anonymous catastrophe. Thats how we keep things interesting.
March 29, 2010
An Exclusive Look at the Cover of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom 12
by C. Max Magee
We learned recently that Jonthan Franzen’s long-awaited follow-up to The Corrections, a new novel called Freedom, will arrive at the end of August.
March 15, 2010
The Road: A Comedic Translation (Part 4) 2
by Jacob Lambert
Their ravenous mouths were sandwichless, the frail lie exposed. A cracked and empty cicadashell. The new world gray and skeletonboned, heavy with reckoning. No barrelpickles anywhere, not even Polish dills.
February 25, 2010
In Our Parents’ Bookshelves 38
by Kevin Hartnett
Even a megabyte seems bulky compared to what can be conveyed in the few cubic feet of a bookshelf. What other vessel is able to hold with such precision, intricacy, and economy, all the facets of your life
February 16, 2010
Linked by Words: Uncovering a Piece of Family History 1
by Andrew Saikali
In these hand-written excerpts and notes, tracking his reading habits in those last few years, I’ve been given a sudden and surprising connection to my past.
