“Cusk remains one of the most formally restless novelists of our time. The trouble is that this inventiveness may now be outpacing Cusk’s thinking.” The post Rachel Cusk’s Diminishing Returns appeared first on Public

“When trying to rectify or at least understand the administrative, and thus, the university, problem, it is the logic of goodness—and in particular the manufacturing of goodness—that is most necessary to expose.” The post

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“He only needed that couplet. Two lines that conjure the story of an entire social order.” The post The Saddest Cattle in the World: Atahualpa Yupanqui, Empire, and the Sound of Stolen Land appeared

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“I was already there, and I was already an ethnographer. I was interested in borders as sites of state violence. I became very curious and I thought I would like to follow the

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“In both these Spanish-language novels, thinking about suicide is not only to grapple with someone else’s decision to die, but also inevitably with one’s own decision to go on living.” The post Literature in