On Helen McClory’s Parasocial Love for Jeff Goldblum in ‘The Goldblum Variations’
Metatexually dazzling yet absurdly soothing, Helen McClory's The Goldblum Variations will put a dent in your bad vibes.
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Joseph Scapellato’s ‘The Made-Up Man’ Brings Forth 21st Century Absurdism
In rendering his most avant-garde characters as members of a kind of self-help conspiracy in The Made-Up Man, Joseph Scapellato offers not an update but a revision of absurdism, and as such, many social phenomena ripe for satire get off easy.
‘Space Opera’: A Galactic-scale Eurovision-style Life or Death Singing Contest
In Catherynne M. Valente's Space Opera, the Meaning of Life has a beat and, depending on your alien physiology, you might be able to dance to it.
Hello, Hypocrisy, My Old Friend: ‘The Religion of the Future’
Roberto Mangabeira Unger eats his own tail in his helpless "new" synthesis of philosophy, religion, and politics.
Looking for ‘The Stranger’: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
Camus's classic has finally earned its very own biography.
