[& elsewhere: Cecily Kane on Catherine F. King's "The Ninety-Ninth Bride." ]

Super quickly, this is how it'll work: 1) 100 or so Big Name Authors automatically entered 2) Everybody else self-nominates (indie au...

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By Deidre McCloskey.

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Because meaning is generated relationally, and every text conditions every other text, no writer is responsible solely for the meaning of th...

If you are straight, cis, white, male, financially comfortable, middle or upper class, and you are a cornucopia of physical and mental abili...

I'll call today's genre "slumberstream." It takes some explaining. I think it's Fredric Jameson who makes the ingeni...