Literature

The strong and steadfast Los Angeles sun no doubt has restorative powers. Well-being emanates from its bright light, an outdoor lifestyle is perennially uplifting; flowers, fruit and trees thrive in…

She wants to move. He doesn’t. She wants the rhythms of the city, the accidents of observation, her husband’s faith that she can be well in a less self-preserving, routine-contriving…

Both literary criticism and memoir, Alden Jones’s The Wanting Was a Wilderness serves to deconstruct the craft through Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, Wild, and to construct her own narrative. It begins…

In the beginning of Hervé Guibert’s autofictional novel To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, he describes the book he’s writing as a “companion […] someone with whom…

How the lyric poem can enable creative reimagining of a historical figure. Four poets discuss strategies and techniques, as well as the rewards and difficulties involved in writing a verse…

“Hands,” Leonardo Rizzi, Creative Commons When I attended Mass Before, the priest told us a few things: 1) If we were taking Communion, we could not allow the officiants to…

Interior, 1939, Vanessa Bell © 1961 estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy Henrietta Garnett. Photo credit: Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service) The minute I expected the view from my window to…

1. These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home by Bayo Akomolafe (North Atlantic Books, 2017) “[E]verything begins in the middle. There are no…

How are you? I’m pretty sure we’re all so paralyzed with anxiety, we haven’t fully processed the cancellations and lost opportunities that the coronavirus pandemic is inflicting upon our careers…

We continue our “Best of 2019″ series curated by the entire Entropy community and present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team here at…

[Plant Poetics and Beyond] A version of this paper was first shared at the 2019 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference on the Vegetal Feminist Experimental Creation…

Intro Wherein Chuck Greaves praises the erudition of Rex Stout, David Abrams hails Agatha Christie’s ability to breed distrust in teenagers, David Huddle discusses the shining sentences of J.D. Salinger,…

Did all friendships … involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power? –Zadie Smith, Swing Time   My friendship with Lila began the day we decided…

Intro Wherein Robert Burke Warren praises the magical minimalism of Alice Munro; Gregory Spatz reflects on the wild life–and still wilder work–of James Agee; Matthew Specktor muses on the wacky,…