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12/06/2021

Tom McCarthy: Mr. Modular

"Plugging literature into other literature"

by Jared Marcel Pollen

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07/20/2020

Strange Islands

Imperialist love stories

by Benjamin Welton

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03/28/2019

Conte Cruel

The Haunted World of Ray Russell

by Benjamin Welton

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01/07/2019

Hollow Words

Exploring John Cleves Symmes Jr.’s obsession with a hollow Earth

by Laura Leavitt

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05/21/2018

Should We Stop Looking for Intelligent Life?

What if it’s too intelligent?

by Joelle Renstrom

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02/16/2017

The Reality of Rebellion

A lack of blackness in dystopian fiction

by Byshera Williams

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10/17/2016

The Future of the Future

How science fiction fails us

by Michael Lind

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10/19/2015

The Shape of Things to Come

Is history a J-curve, an S-curve, or a spike?

by Michael Lind

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05/06/2015

The Poetry Election, Bradbury, Sendak,
and Sun Ra

by Richard Abowitz

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02/24/2014

A Story of the Present

Journey to the Center of the Earth at 150.

by Stefany Anne Golberg

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