'Evil detaches and isolates a singularity; it takes on the clear‐cut figure of an individual act, person, or story.'

From our Autumn 2005 issue, read François Jullien's 'The Shadow on the Picture: Of Evil or the Negative': journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

'EXistenZ’s science‐fictional novum, the interface of the human psyche with bioelectronic devices, is a sort of analogue to Freud’s notion of the drive (Trieb).'

From our Summer 2003 issue, read Teresa de Lauretis's 'Becoming Inorganic': journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

'Beginning with the death of Rohith Vemula, recounted in the preface, the vernacular repeatedly comes up against the limits of institution, nation, and world.'

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan on Akshya Saxena's Vernacular English, from Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/ragini_tharoor…

'The beautiful not only beckons but also charms, enthralls, and otherwise captivates its beholder.'

From our Winter 2012 issue, read Richard Moran's 'Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty': journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

'The Ulysses case provided the precedent and template for almost all ensuing obscenity trials in England and the United States.'

From our Winter 2006 issue, read Loren Glass's 'Redeeming Value': journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

'The wounds themselves assume the appearance of nails, the nail heads and points seeming to come out of the flesh.'

From our Spring 2009 issue, read Arnold I. Davidson and Maggie Fritz-Morkin's 'The Miracles of Bodily Transformation': journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/60…

'The transition from narrative to storytelling is how the world becomes disenchanted, and this disenchantment proliferates.'

New in review, Bryan Counter on Byung-Chul Han's The Crisis of Narration, from Polity: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/bryan_counter_…

Summer issue coming soon, with articles by Yota Batsaki; S. Pearl Brilmyer; Natalia Cecire and Samuel Solomon; Marcie Frank, Kevin Pask, and Ned Schantz; Hang Tu; András Kiséry; Rosalind Morris; and Noel Blanco Mourelle.
The kudzu is creeping your way . . .

'Fictions were long seen to raise questions about the mind’s power to think about things that do not exist and thereby—paradoxically—to grant them a kind of existence.'

From our new issue, read Benedict S. Robinson's 'The True Story of Fictionality': journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

❤️‍🔥 'Dwelling in Fiction is an impressive study that lends urgency to the questions it raises: What does a critical regionalist poetics look like in the twenty-first century and across media? How do we carry out the unending task of learning to dwell in the world?' ❤️‍🔥

'Broodthaers rooted the modernist 'conquest of space' to its historical base in the colonial appropriation of the world.'

From our new issue, read Trevor Stark's 'The Reification of the World': journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

'Dwelling in Fiction works out the equivalent of a critical regionalism for literary studies.'

New in review, Santiago Ospina Celis on Ashley R. Brock's Dwelling in Fiction, from Northwestern University Press: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/santiago_ospin…

'Settlers perceived themselves as culturally distinct from Indigenous peoples insofar as they had a commitment to not letting land go to waste.'

From our new issue, read Sarah Elizabeth Vaughn's 'Unavoidable Slips': journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to CI coeditor Tina Post for her National Book Critics Circle Award for best criticism.

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'Building materials should be understood not merely as finished surfaces but as flows of matter and energy, which is to say as temporal phenomena.'

From our new issue, read Sean Keller's 'Building Duration: Architecture Out of Adventure-Time': journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

'Hillenbrand finds that class conflict is often sublimated into a struggle over whether conflict itself can be expressed or should be harmonized, mitigated, or censored.'
New in review, Nick Admussen on Margaret Hillenbrand's On the Edge, from Columbia Univ Press: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/nick_admussen_…

'The idea is not only to mitigate carbon release but also to reverse the thawing by restoring an Ice Age ecosystem known as the mammoth steppe, or northern grasslands.'

From our new issue, read Anya Bernstein's 'Pleistocene Park': journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

'The transformation of affect into data to effect change and preserve institutional or platform dominance is the exact goal and logic of social media.'
New CI: Read Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Grace Kyungwon Hong, and Lisa Nakamura's ''Understanding' Asians': journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

'The picture of synaesthesia that emerges from these kinds of comparisons is, far from presenting a totalizing whole, one of articulated differences.'

New in review, Simon Leser on Susan Bernstein's The Other Synaesthesia, from SUNY Press: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/simon_leser_re…

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