Symposium: Sincere Thieves
Various
Jun 1 2019
Isabella Hammad’s wonderful debut novel, The Parisian, opens in 1914, as World War I begins and the Ottoman Empire ends. Midhat Kamal is the contemplative son of a well-to-do ...
Selected Symposia
Apr 1, 2019
A Symposium on the American Landmass
Twenty years before Jamestown was established, a small group of colonists settled Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. When one of the colonists, John ...
Feb 1, 2019
A Symposium on Generations
My first diary had a lock on it. I’d write to my future self, expecting that I’d go back one day and read everything. I never did—until I did, years later, after unearthing ...
Nov 30, 2018
A Symposium on Garbage Art
All ancient cities stand on layers of rubble, waste, and human remains. Rome is no exception. In Sister Stop Breathing, a collection of short fictions centered mostly on the ...
Oct 1, 2018
A Symposium on the Modern Family
“Why are we like this?” the daughter screams several minutes into Will Eno’s play The Open House. The question sits between a pair of tense silences, the sort that are ...
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A Symposium on the American Landmass
Various
Apr 1 2019
Twenty years before Jamestown was established, a small group of colonists settled Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. When one of the colonists, John ...
A Symposium on Generations
Various
Feb 1 2019
My first diary had a lock on it. I’d write to my future self, expecting that I’d go back one day and read everything. I never did—until I did, years later, after unearthing ...
A Symposium on Garbage Art
Various
Nov 30 2018
All ancient cities stand on layers of rubble, waste, and human remains. Rome is no exception. In Sister Stop Breathing, a collection of short fictions centered mostly on the ...
A Symposium on the Modern Family
Various
Oct 1 2018
“Why are we like this?” the daughter screams several minutes into Will Eno’s play The Open House. The question sits between a pair of tense silences, the sort that are ...
A Symposium on Soundtracks
Aug 1 2018
The piece of music I have in mind lasts only forty-five seconds, which is shockingly brief measured against the inner world it evokes. In what I now know is a fragmentary ...
A Symposium on Monsters
Various
Jun 30 2018
In the two hundred years since Mary Shelley brought it to life, the name Frankenstein has become synonymous with ethically questionable creations, scientific hubris, and the ...
A Symposium on Lies
Various
Apr 1 2018
If you walk through the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland today and hear a baby crying behind a bush, it’s plausible that you’ll look and find no infant marooned there in the ...
A Symposium on Weather
Various
Feb 8 2018
Last March, the World Meteorological Organization put out its first new edition of the International Cloud Atlas in thirty years. The first edition, published in 1896, was ...
