...Lara Ehrlich Lara Ehrlich Ruler of the Inverted Year You come alone, your footsteps smoking. The first in generations to walk the Road of Bones. There are no signs, and snow chokes the channel between the trees. Those who tried before you walked until they could walk no more...

...Lonnie Busch © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Busch 41 Lonnie Busch One Year from Now The room is small and bright like the inside of a hundred-watt light bulb and smells serious and antiseptic like a doctor’s office because...

...Grace Q. Song [email protected] © 2023 Grace Q. Song 2023 Grace Q. Song Light-Years I m so bad at life and love men. Yesterday I bought too many onions from Morton Williams. I forgot plans for lunch, and then it was all over, right there at noon. The truth is I ll take compliments...

...Emma Bolden © 2017 Emma Bolden 2017 Emma Bolden After Twenty Years of Trying I Decided to Be I sorried. I slept & sheeped. I was under the line of an aimed gun. I became ages ago. I slept & sorrowed, our lady, a flower petaled over the edge of the bicycle lane. I had nowhere...

...Sophia Parnok; Rainie Oet Copyright © 2019 Rainie Oet 2019 Sophia Parnok Translated by Rainie Oet It hits me: oh my God, I ve slept so many years It hits me: oh my God, I slept so many years And missed out on this sinful heaven! Poplars bloom. Cupolas blaze on the boulevard. I sit down...

...Rosemary Haskell; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair Novelist Fatou Diome, Senegalese migrant to France, in 2019 reached the twenty-fifth year in her adopted country. Silver-anniversary motives encouraged the author to chart the quarter century of progress of this “megaphone...

...Gaurav Desai © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Gaurav Desai Introduction Katrina, Ten Years Later Published almost a decade after one of the most devastating disasters...

...Wendy Wisner © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Wendy Wisner Nursing: Two Years Old 1. As he falls asleep, he tucks his free hand under the elastic of my sports bra. This is what he’ll remember even after it seems absurd to suck on his mother’s breast— his...

... is that the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone—now an ecological reserve—is paradigmatic or symptomatic, a theater for the complicated libidinal architecture of the kinds of postapocalyptic sites that may in coming years become the primary places for charismatic megafauna to live, and in which conservation becomes the management...

... or sixty years. Smith describes her foray into feminist activism in the 1960s; her love of English poetry but disaffection with the intellectual provincialism of English departments in the 1970s; her increased occupation during the 1980s and 1990s with problems of aesthetics, linguistics, and value theory...

...Stephen A. Nelson Although it has been nearly ten years since the Hurricane Katrina disaster, many misconceptions (myths) still surround the events that took place. Among these myths are that levees failed the day after Katrina made landfall, that the failed levees were on the Mississippi River...

... interdisciplinarity was not yet trendy and continuing with her nineteen years in the rhetoric department at the University of California at Berkeley. She describes the evolution of her relationship to Freud's thought, her ongoing commitment to feminism, her more recent engagement with Heidegger, and the place...

... the period of the Cold War to that of globalization. Through an interlinked series of essays published separately over fifteen years, he argues that the “cultural turn” that redefined the study of culture in the first world was mirrored by similar changes in the second and third worlds. The circumstances...

...Calina Ciobanu This article argues that Margaret Atwood’s postapocalyptic MaddAddam trilogy, composed of the novels Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood , and MaddAddam , imagines how humankind might come to reconstitute itself at the end of the Anthropocene—that is, once it has decimated...

... recent responses to this question in an effort to begin to map the landscape of literature and criticism after secularism. J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year provides an example of what such a criticism of presence would look like as well as the models of public life it entails. Coetzee's example...

... to think of their salaries after tenure as something similar to a pension. After all, in some fields, many folks will not receive tenure until they’ve been working for low wages for twenty years or more: a dozen years to get the degree, another three to four years serving contingently...

... Mellon University. Williams This year you have two new books on cultural politics and the academic left coming out, and you have a blog that is one of the more noteworthy ones for those of us in the humanities. It seems to me that your role now, or one of your roles...

... was the family’s third child, after her older sister Frieda and her brother Edward. Lillian’s father died when she was only four, and soon afterwards their mother bought a two-family house in Queens, New York, together with her twin sister Jennie Postman and Jennie’s husband Ike Postman. During the years...

..., appears in a special issue of the online magazine Reconstruction, on “Class, Culture and the Public Intellectual,” edited by Graham Barnfield, Joe Ramsey, and Cohen. Cohen How do you feel looking back, twenty years from your first book, Cover Stories? 106 the minnesota review...

... feel that, in the last three years, things have changed more than in any recent time. You'd probably have to go back to the late 1970s when prices suddenly escalated. I remember when Guthrie's A History of Greek Philosophy went from $25 a volume to $80 a volume in a three year period...