Vigil shies away from elaborating on the perils of its subjects: late capitalism and the climate apocalypse.
- Lecturer in English Literature, Adelaide University
What can a grisly meth-fuelled murder in northern Minnesota’s Iron Range tell us about post-industrial decline and the malaise of contemporary America?
Julia Phillips’s second novel plays in the slippages between fantasy and the realities that constrain the lives of working-class people.
What does capitalism do to our ability to connect with other people? Lydia Davis’ stories suggest it hollows out our words – but that the exaltation of the ordinary can connect us.
Jean Toomer’s novel is a visionary masterpiece and one of the most influential works of African American modernism.
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