2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (453+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Her breakdown, meticulously planned in advance, must have a “formal perfection.” If given a page in the DSM, Chihaya’s bibliophobia would be depicted as a disease infused with equal parts bibliophilia and bibliophobia,…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1122+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship There is a formula in sitcoms. As explicit as in French court poetry or Shakespearean romances, the sitcom expects the restoration of order. In a sitcom, the desire shifts and changes the bodies…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (136+ words) Public Books a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Mirta Ojito on “Deeper than the Ocean” Deeper Than the Ocean The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mirta Ojito, who has written two non-fiction books, has now written her first novel. Deeper Than…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (212+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship “Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place.” —The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Nothingness, in this sense, has exerted no selective pressure…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago   (242+ words) a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Yet he ultimately planned to depict state-sponsored pogroms, the empire’s antisemitic policies, and an unjust trial led by politically motivated officials readily persecuting citizens. Given the nationalist and imperialist trends that had solidified…...