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“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams,” Kafka’s Metamorphosis famously begins in one translation, “he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” There’s something quietly remarkable about this line, which catapults us, with disquieting ease, into a world of horror, of monstrosity. Article continues after advertisement It’s one of those

The following is a story from The Michigan Quarterly Review. Boermans grew up in the Dutch countryside and studied Media Arts at the Kunstacademie. Her debut novel, A Long List of Shortcomings, was published in 2021 and nominated for the Hebban Debut Prize. In 2022 her second novel, Love Interbellum, was published and nominated for

November 14, 2024, 11:34am InfoWars—that miserable cesspool of a conspiracy news site, spun from the flax between Alex Jones’s ears—has a new owner. And this one has a sense of humor! Maybe even a soul! Following a well-publicized bankruptcy auction, Jones’s brainwashing platform is now the official property of The Onion. The satirical news site

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In the wake of the election, writer Maggie Tokuda-Hall joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss what Project 2025 has in store for authors and book bans. Tokuda-Hall explains Project 2025’s misuse of terms like “critical race theory” and “pornography” and how these will be used to attack mainstream content, especially material by

Hello and welcome back to another thrilling installment of Am I the Literary Asshole?, the advice column that wants you to consider anonymously sending me your hot takes in lieu of simply tweeting them out and causing a five-alarm literary fire. I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, and I’m happy to be here with you all