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Failures of Imagination: We and Flatland

Posted April 3, 202600:56:46

 

The “Hideous Bargain” is no longer just about one child’s pain . . .

We investigate the “Euclidean...

Utopia’s Spare Parts: Star Trek & Ishiguro

Posted March 21, 202600:49:26

The “Hideous Bargain” moves from metaphor to the operating table.

In this episode, we let loose the bonds of metaphor in...

The Architecture of the Dungeon: Toni Morrison and the 13th Amendment

Posted March 1, 202600:42:18

The Omelas basement has a physical address in America: the prison-industrial complex. 

This week, we use the lens of Toni Morrison’s literary...

Wandering Stars: Tommy Orange and the Sovereign Center

Posted February 21, 202600:30:19

What happens to the story when the ‘object’ of our sympathy looks back and refuses the role we’ve written for them?

The allegory of the...

The Bureaucracy of Erasure: Erdrich’s The Night Watchman

Posted February 13, 202600:51:41

Your Interpretation is Colonial.

When we turn Zen into a pop-culture vibe or a totem pole into a corporate metaphor, we aren’t learning;...