How to account for, much less explain, America’s malaise? Is it that our politics lack imagination, or that our imaginations too easily give into the temptations of ostensibly ideology-free escapism?…
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, edited by Barbara Cassin Translation edited by Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, and Michael Wood Princeton University Press, 2014 1344 pages – Princeton / Amazon Strictly…
Bird by Noy Holland Counterpoint Press, 2015 176 pages – Counterpoint / Amazon The first ‘bird’ in Noy Holland’s Bird, a debut novel—though ‘debut’ seems just wrong for this high…
Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…
Whither the lyric? A hand-wringing (see below) form perhaps by definition—itself a manifestation of doom—a certain amount of common sense attends to hand-wringing over the lyric, its utilities as well…
All of the money we make from reading fees funnels right back into the production costs of our books. That, unfortunately, is the brunt of costs. The more funding we receive from the university, the more books we can produce. We can only afford to put out a couple of books annually at this point, although we would love to do more. Even with small increments of university funding, it is barely enough to keep a small press working.
An essay using words, not pictures, by Phil Eklund, Dec 2014 This is a guest post by Phil Eklund, founder of Sierra Madre Games and designer of the board games…
It’s estimated that there are up to 7000 different languages spoken around the world. 90% of these languages are used by less than 100,000 people. 2,200 of the world’s languages…
for, on the one hand, Eric Trudel, and on the other, Francesca Capone There is one activity one can always engage in: the gaze-of-such-a-sort-that-it’s-spoken, the comment upon what surrounds him…
In explaining the body in relation to objects, the French phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty asserts in his seminal work, Phenomenology of Perception “the outline of my body is a frontier…