When Domestic Life Is Like a Horror Story
Anglophone readers of Mieko Kanai’s whirling, urgent novel Mild Vertigo will face only one disappointment: There’s…
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Herman Melville
The American Idea
In the winter of 1861, the second editor in chief of The Atlantic, James T. Fields, received a letter from Julia…
The God of Nature Or Nature’s God: Herman…
Arrowhead, the property where Herman Melville wrote "Moby-Dick", in Pittsfield in the Berkshires ...…
Punching out: Burnout simmers in songs, books,…
In 1994, Green Day released a song titled Burnout, on the album Dookie. Part of it goes: “Apathy has rained on me…