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Sublime Neutrality

In contemporary fiction, “literary evil” has been replaced by “neurotics, malingerers, failed imposters”—but what are the consequences of this indifference to evil and the assumed moral neutrality?

Reboot, Squared

TV can’t reboot its way out of its past errors, any more than an individual can fix their past trauma by reliving it, over and over again.

Weirding Out with Kate Marshall

Hosted by: Chris Holmes and Emily Hyde

In the intro to season 6 of Novel Dialogue, Kate Marshall gets weird: “I was looking at writers who were considering themselves part of a new weird, and I wanted to ask what the old weird was, and so I started looking.”

Difficult Empathies

“What would a successful war novel look like? This question concealed a deeper question I had: What would a truthful Kashmir novel look like?”