To After That (TOAF)A warm spirited elegy to an abandoned work, brilliantly comic and wryly contemplative, by one of the great artist investigators of our time. Originally published in 2008 in the groundbreaking Atelos series, To After That (TOAF) introduced a new kind of writingsomewhere between criticism and memoir and philosophythat Renee Gladman has continued to explore in books like Calamities and My Lesbian Novel. TOAF is a recuperative song, an effort to give

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The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo

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Vollmann then recounts multiple visits that he made at significant personal risk over the course of seven years to the contaminated no-go zones and sad ghost towns of Fukushima

Brown revisits Detroit’s 1980s techno scene to highlight pioneering groups like the Belleville Three before jumping into the origins of today’s international club floor to draw important connections between industrialized labor systems and cultural production

How perfect that Yoko Tawada’s first essay in English dives deep into her lifelong fascination with the possibilities opened up by cross-hybridizing languages

Erdman's erudite and penetrating analysis

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