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A Stirring, Surreal Portrait of AI-Empowered Authoritarianism
This isn’t your classic stream of consciousness, but instead a stream of artificial consciousness—humanity observed rather than experienced.
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To All the Books I Published Before
To declare my intentions, the first book I bought for my new imprint, Poseidon Press, was Henry Bean’s 'The Nenoquich.' It was published, on my first list, in 1982. And now, mirabile dictu, 'The Nenoquich' has returned to life.
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Things Got Weird: On the Early ‘90s Crack-Up
Ganz vividly renders the early 1990s’ shouty yet blankly confused alienations along with the endlessly gassy and vituperative “whither America?” debates.
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The Beguiling Crónicas of Hebe Uhart
'A Question of Belonging' is marked by an unerring belief that a good story can be found almost anywhere.
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Jazz Remains the Sound of Modernism
Armstrong and Ellington, Coltrane and Davis, Gillespie and Parker, were central to the same project as other modernists; they reconfigured time and space to craft an alternative way of expression.
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Rise of the Ghost Machines
You’d think two centuries would be long enough for us to sort the singer from the song, to divine where the soul ends and our machines begin. You’d think wrong.
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Want to Write Better Fiction? Become a Translator
For K.E. Semmel, Jenny Croft, Idra Novey, and Bruna Dantas Lobato, translation was a crucial training ground for writing fiction.
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Becca Rothfeld’s Exuberant Ode to the Risks of Rapture
There is no experience of longing that is not, at the same time, an ethical revelation.
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Elias Canetti’s Words Against Death
The marks on the page are the opposite of the marks on the tombstone.
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