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In Valerie Werder’s debut novel Thieves, Valerie—an autofictional alter ego—chronicles her slide from disgruntled gallery copywriter

“Ballard’s novels are radical in the true sense, in that they reach back to and reanimate the novel’s very roots.”

Hal Foster on The Anti-Aesthetic

Michigan Bits: Michigan’s specialty crops receive $2.2 million USDA grant; Joe Cramer joins MSU presidential search; apple reps chosen.

On Clipper Street in San Francisco, 1982. Courtesy of Robert Glück.   Robert Glück’s best-known work, Margery Kempe (1994), is an entirely original novel that juxtaposes apparently autobiographical episodes from the life of “Bob,” a man who has an all-consuming p...

Featuring Henry Hoke, Elaine Dundy, Jack Skelley, Scott McClanahan, and more.

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...

The New York director’s 1983 film Variety used a real ‘adult’ cinema to turn around the male gaze. On its re-release, she explains her lifelong drive to push boundaries

A tomb-raiding treasure re-emerges thanks to Martin Scorsese, while an adult cinema is the setting for a 40-year-old feminist mystery.

Bette Gordon’s fascinating 1983 film about a woman working in an adult movie theatre has a script by Kathy Acker and parts for Nan Goldin and Spalding Gray