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  • 26 May 2020
    Ann Vickery

    Australia, COVID-19, Belonging and Poetic Air

    In Australia, something (or other) is in the air. The worst bushfire season on record has been succeeded by COVID-19. Iconic beaches were eerily empty during the Easter holiday period, being part of the extended lockdown restrictions. Many in the south-eastern parts of the country are suffering first from drought, then from bushfire, and finally […]

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  • 22 May 2020
    Paul Crosthwaite

    Panic, Economics, and Pandemic

    A viral pandemic is spidering across the globe, and so too is an emotional one. Fears and anxieties spread and mutate in whispered late-night conversations and flashing updates, working their own damage on bodies and minds. There is deep fear of the virus itself, of course, and fear as well of its economic impact. The current crisis has rendered the economic laws that govern […]

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  • 21 May 2020
    Steven Frye

    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

    Covid-19 has emptied our streets and blighted the places where we come together in community, revealing that the cities we have built have made us willfully blind to a fundamental truth: all things living exist at the whim and will of an indifferent nature. As we strive to sustain our family lives and work to […]

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  • 20 May 2020
    Colleen Lye, Chris Nealon

    Zooming Marx

    Thinking with Marx breeds shared projects. Over the last year and a half we have been co-editing a collection of essays on 21st-century Marxist literary criticism, and this winter, in order to prepare to write the introduction to that book, we set out to tandem- teach undergraduate courses on the first volume of Capital at […]

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  • 19 May 2020
    Lisa Vargo

    Mary Shelley’s The Last Man and Covid 19

    Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel about a mysterious pandemic that obliterates human beings attracted attention during the advent of AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s; once again The Last Man has a sad currency.  Her reflection in her ‘Journal of Sorrow’, ‘The last man! Yes, I may well describe that solitary being’s feelings, feeling myself as […]

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  • 19 May 2020
    Ato Quayson

    Grief and Grieving

    When I was about eleven years old and growing up in Accra my father’s cousin, with whom he was very close, lost his wife to a terrible car accident. Uncle Alfred (his name) was inconsolable. A couple of days after the news, my father gathered us together to tell us that there was a tradition in […]

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  • 18 May 2020
    Louise Westling

    Deep History and the Rhythm of Catastrophe

    The relatively brief geological time span of our species’ existence has been punctuated again and again by catastrophic events–volcanic eruptions, devastating climate changes, melting glaciers and consequent rising seas. The eruption of Mt. Mazama in Southern Oregon around 7,700 years ago resulted in Crater Lake forming in its caldera, and still figures in Klamath oral […]

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  • 18 May 2020
    Laura Lomas

    Latinx Literature during la Cuarentena del 2020

    Cada vez más pequeña mi pequeñez rendida, cada instante más grande y más simple la entrega mi pecho quizás ruede a iniciar un capullo, acaso irán mis labios a nutrir azucenas Each moment smaller my defeated smallness, each instant grander and simpler the surrender my breast will roll over to launch a rosebud, perhaps my […]

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