When “a skillful literary artist has constructed a tale,” writes Edgar Allan Poe, he “has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a ...
Anahid Nersessian
Anahid Nersessian is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book, Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment, will be published in March 2015. 
Animal Studies
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman, without turning into a beast. In Lydia Millet’s Magnificence, a widow feeling guilty about her husband’s death compares herself to a taxidermy display of stuffed ...