A writer and scholar, Gil Z. Hochberg is the Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies, and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies ...

The first part of Stefano Gualeni’s What We Owe the Dead is a fictional police report, drafted in a dystopian future in which humans live within inhabitable cooling mega-siphons built to counteract ...

Amid the spiraling news cycle detailing the disappearances of immigrants in the United States in the summer of 2025, the story of Luis Leon caught my attention. The 82-year-old Chilean refugee, a ...

Figure 1. Utility markings on a sidewalk surrounding a sewer manhole, Cambridge MA, September 2026. The red paint indicates the mapped route of electrical infrastructure, with arrows showing the ...

This past year has marked the centennial of visual artist Robert Rauschenberg, born October 22, 1925. In honor of the centennial, the Trisha Brown Dance Company returned to the Brooklyn Academy of ...

Our partner podcast Novel Dialogue invites a novelist and a literary critic to talk about novels from every angle: how we read them, write them, publish them, and remember them. This season, we take a ...

Given Meursault’s unreliable narration and narrative interiority, The Stranger proves challenging to adapt. While the first-person novella suggests Meursault’s attitudes and philosophies brand him the ...

There are postmodern tics and tropes, but they are buried within the text rather than jabbing forth from its surface. The title page does not list the author as Mark Z. Danielewski, but as one “E.L.M.