Focus: Lost and Found — March / April 2013
nina2022-06-23T19:39:03+00:00The desire to read and write, be it with charcoal or an iPhone, share in the same desire to understand and be understood, to communicate in and across time.
Focus: Post-Apocalyptic Literature — January / February 2013
nina2022-06-23T19:54:53+00:00We are living through an era of zombie capitalism, and it is no accident that an apocalyptic necro-realism is the dominant mode of representation of our times.
Focus: Arab-American Literature — November / December 2012
nina2022-06-23T20:09:00+00:00"Where and to whom do I belong?" are questions that haunt immigrant and ethnic writing.
Focus: Exanthropic Poetics — September / October 2012
nina2022-06-23T20:41:40+00:00The post- and ex-anthropic seem to be merging, not just in literature, but in philosophy and theory, where once again materialisms and realisms of various forms are ascendant.
Focus: Book Blogs — July / August 2012
nina2022-06-23T21:00:01+00:00Some lit-based web presences exist to unite broad groups around the idea of reading and writing. Many function as hotbeds for literary debate.
Focus: Minimalisms — May / June 2012
nina2022-06-23T21:15:05+00:00Minimalisms do their most creative work in their suggestions and their omissions, and this paradox generates critical difficulty and epistemological anxiety around minimalist literature.
Focus: Petrofictions — March / April 2012
nina2022-06-24T15:12:47+00:00The everyday comforts of routine and faith in the predictability of our systems makes us love rather than fear the world we have made.
Focus: The Essay’s Future — January / February 2012
nina2022-06-24T15:37:46+00:00Essays catch us in the act of being human, offering the individual point of view in reportage, portraits, confessions, satire, and social commentary.
Focus: New American Studies — November / December 2011
nina2022-06-24T15:59:53+00:00New Americanists are developing connections between ecocriticism, postcolonial studies, and the influence of US and global politico-military powers.
Focus: The Collaborative Turn– September / October 2011
nina2022-06-24T16:24:07+00:00The Collaborative Turn is a series of techniques, texts, and writers that bring to the fore the collaborative mechanisms of all aesthetic production.
Focus: In and Out Books — July / August 2011
nina2022-06-24T16:36:46+00:00Today's fashion becomes yesterday's failure; yesterday's failure is today's fashion. Overlooked or overrated literary and critical gems are only visible with hindsight.
Focus: Uncreative Writing — May / June 2011
nina2022-06-24T16:51:13+00:00Uncreative writing is the appropriation of previously produced material, taking something out of its original context and putting it forth as art by reproducing it in another context.
