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An essay considering matters of personhood, immanence, and transcendence in Clarice Lispector’s 1954 novel, The Passion According to G.H.
A discussion of the Norwegian novelist Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold’s tortuous autofictional journey (back) to humanness, and beyond.
An essay on Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights that ponders questions about the novel, personhood, and “novelistic personhood.”
An essay comparing the divergent ways in which the aesthetic worlds of John Wick film franchise and Homer’s Iliad frame depictions of violence.
My take on the Hungarian phenom’s strangely apocalyptic worldbuilding.
Thoughts on gender and genderlessness in Sphinx, the beguiling 1986 novel by the Oulipian experimentalist Anne Garréta.