Focus: Machine Writing — January / February 2014
nina2022-06-23T15:37:48+00:00Machines with the ability to process natural language are taking on writing assignments that once would have been given to a human.
Focus: Letters — November / December 2013
nina2022-06-23T15:46:51+00:00Letters, perhaps especially the letters of a celebrated author, promise to reveal the subjectivity of their writer in a way that no other form does.
Focus: Sex Writing — September / October 2013
nina2022-06-23T16:39:57+00:00If sex writing is a controversial issue, it is undoubtedly a different one for women writers than for men.
Focus: Literary Activism — July / August 2013
nina2022-06-23T18:06:35+00:00Creative criticism consciously critiques through narratives that provide sociohistorical context and analyze the political, economic, and social issues inherent in that time and place.
Focus: Metamodernism — May / June 2013
nina2022-06-23T20:43:41+00:00Even postmodernism's heyday was a glamorous afterlife, out of sync with itself and practiced as a form of subversive intertextuality. What then is post-postmodernism?
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.
