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When Language Bends Reality: Navigating the Wonders of Postmodern Literature - Where Imagination Knows No Limits. Where Expectations Meet Surprises.

Close to 400 crashes have been reported involving drivers and pedestrians this year alone in Marion County.

© Catherine Wolff   This interview took place in the summer of 2003, at Tobias Wolff’s home in northern California. He had just returned from ten months in Rome, where he finished work on his eighth book, Old School. Standing by a wall adorned with family photographs, Wolff pr...

Hal Foster on The Anti-Aesthetic

Reckless driving is at a crisis point in Indy, a city councilor says. Fishers residents discuss upcoming election, Carl Erskines Hall of Fame award.

THE NOTION OF POSTMODERNISM was once a great stimulant to art and thought; today, it feels like another anti-aphrodisiac of the just past. In some ways, postmodernism seems more historical than modernism, reanimated as modernism is by questions of colonialism, diaspora, and globality. On the other hand, this untimeliness makes the present a good moment to look back at postmodernism, if only to measure our distance from it.The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, which I edited, was publ...

Alexander Liebeskind is just checking in on us.

In the golden age of magazines, short stories reigned supreme. Has the digital revolution killed their cultural relevance?

Councilor John Barth has introduced a new proposal that would treat trail crossings the same as school crossings.

Marion County Democrats have overwhelming control of the City-County Council, but they're leaving little to chance in the Nov. 7 election. They've fielded candidates in even some of the most lopsidedly-Republican districts.