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At Literary Hub, read an essay by J.M. Coetzee about Samuel Beckett from Coetzee's Late Essays: 2006–2017. Coetzee's rumination begins with his thoughts on Beckett's relationship with philosophy: "Beckett writes as...

Over the holiday, Colorado-based publisher Aaron Cohick was interviewed at Entropy about New Lights Press and "publishing as an artistic practice." "One of the nice things about a press that is not a...

About two years ago, I was sitting at a bar with a friend and realized I no longer believed in socialism. I mean: I certainly believe in the principles, but...

Speaking of Commune Editions: A conversation with editor, poet, and professor Joshua Clover was published yesterday at The Rumpus. Jack Chelgren talked with Clover about "how his thinking on riots and strikes had changed since Riot.Strike.Riot was...

Now that we're looking back at 2017 for the vantage of the New Year, it's worth taking a final gander at the amazing books published in the year that was....

Published yesterday at Jacket2 is Charles Bernstein's remembrance of Gertrude Stein scholar Ulla Dydo, who died in September of last year. If by chance you've spent any time reading Stein,...

The year is off to a great start! At the end of last year, we noted Lisa Robertson was the recipient of a $40,000 grant from the estate of Ellsworth...

At Hyperallergic, Jon Curley reviews recent publications by the Oakland-based Commune Editions. Curley's review focuses on two volumes in particular: Nanni Balestrini's Blackout (tr. Peter Valente) and Transnational Battle Field by Heriberto...

1. Dark Times Thirst for Light When I look back at some of the language I use to describe my interest in light—what endures, fragility, breath, spirit—I think a more comprehensive...

The Margins posted a piece this week about Don Mee Choi’s Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) and its relationship to failure, whether that be of translation, or the rewriting of Korean...