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Ari Brostoff’s debut essay collection studies the ruptures of our very recent past
... Sanders, The X-Files, Sigmund Freud, conspiracy theories, Jewish diaspora, Vivian Gornick, and falling in and out of (and back in) love with communism. What unites them is the curiously roving...
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Love, Labor, Loss
...-Freud title of “Vile Bodies: Heterosexuality and Its Discontents,” Kipnis delivers a line redolent of feminism’s most famous slogan, reminding us that “personal life isn’t just personal”—it’s also...
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Benjamin Moser on Clarice Lispector; The 2022 Black Comic Book Festival begins this week
...-clarice-lispector-s-radiant-nothingness-10575> from 2013. In his latest Sweater Weather newsletter Brandon Taylor reflects on life in Iowa, Freud...
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On Dostoyevsky’s immersive polyphony and neologisms
... they would inspire French structuralism. Illuminating analyses, against which the Bakhtinian approach rebelled; attentive as it was to Hegel even while rejecting Freud, tuned into “popular comedy...
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Bookforum talks with Amber Husain about her book-length essay Replace Me
... think Marx, Freud, Lacan, Deleuze, Guattari and various other dead guys still have things to add to contemporary feminist discourse around these questions. I’m not ashamed to have them keep helping...
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A new journal uses obstacles to critically evaluate culture
... looser, or, more concretely, another iteration of the Freud and Marx combo platter that has become (or become again) popular in the last twenty years. As Benjamin Crais puts it in his review of...
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Jacqueline Rose on how the pandemic has changed our understanding of death; the new issue of the "Yale Review" is out now
... changed the way we think about death. Noting that Freud once said no one believes in their own death, Rose observes, “If the pandemic has changed life forever, it might therefore be because that...
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Sense and Saleability
... says, from the experience--nearly universal to wealthy countries--of retail therapy rather than from the psychodynamic therapy launched by Freud around the same time of literary modernism. To be...
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The Interpretation of Screens
... psychoanalysis. Appropriately enough, he turns to another artificial intelligence for help, the computer of the starship Enterprise, which creates a holographic representation of Sigmund Freud. Later, Data...
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Hell Can Wait
... two, their parents, receive extended flashbacks to their own years of discovery, an era when Freud is “Dr. Freud,” the cool kids are still “fast,” and the reporter fresh from rendering Homage to...
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Dial F for Father
... WHILE WANDERING AROUND the Jewish Museum’s haunting exhibition “Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter,” curated by the artist’s former literary archivist Philip Larratt-Smith, I stopped at a...
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Merve Emre on Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished love story; poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers to discuss her debut novel
.../nypltreasures/tag/treasuresweb>. From Freud to Nietzsche, Malcolm Gladwell to Ferrante, LitHub lists every book featured in Mike...
