Apocalypse and self-renewal in a Leonora Carrington novel

Maybe the end of the world is a better world for some. Maybe a world that must end in order to be better for some is a bad world.

Love and transitions in Emar

Beneath the veneer of strangeness, Emar’s novel is also a love story.

Contre-voyages

In the interwar period, a cluster of works out of France did something strange with the travel-writing genre. They took it apart, limb by limb. This series attempts to make sense of this moment, collectively, and the individual works that contributed to it.

Holdings 1:1

Helicopters, fascists, extreme reading, and more

Birds of paradise, Night Flight edition

Perhaps Saint-Exupéry's novel about air mail in South America will help us grasp the reason for LAPD's helicopter division

Birds of paradise

Why fill the skies with cops in helicopters? Perhaps literature can help us understand.

Literature and fascism in Italy, pt. 3

Lessons in authoritarianism from the narrator of Ortese‘s 1965 novel

What is extreme reading?

Beyond pleasure and professionals

Forever Valley

Redonnet's novel about a sixteen-year-old digging holes for the dead is a signature occasion for serious reading

Literature and fascism in Italy, pt. 2

Calvino's first novel suggests the authoritarian aesthetic is not just about which stories get told, but how