In Agency, Gibson’s unequaled sequel to The Peripheral (2014), characters return from the future, virtually and with a vengeance.
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January 27, 2020

 

Welcome Back, William Gibson

In Agency, Gibson’s unequaled sequel to The Peripheral (2014), characters return from the future, virtually and with a vengeance.

Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle

 
 
 
 

The Extraordinary Ordinary in Prose Poems

For Maxine Chernoff, language is both the promise and the breaking of the promise.

Kate Silzer

 
 
 
 

A Contemporary Look at Punk From the Global to the Local

To understand what it is to be punk in the 21st century, a group of scholars who identify as punks, have gathered their research into an insightful book.

Layla Fassa

 
 
 
 

A New Abolitionist Book Club in NYC Aims to Improve Literacy About Incarceration

The book club’s first selection is Angela Davis’s Are Prisons Obsolete?. The monthly gatherings will be held at Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center in Manhattan.

Hakim Bishara

 
 
 
 

A Photographer Entranced by Small-Town America

In his portraits of Pennsylvania’s small towns and cities, Niko J. Kallianiotis provides both a detached and deeply curious view of a part of the US that is often glossed over by the popular imagination.

Sarah Rose Sharp

 
 
 
 

Two Poems From Shrapnel Maps by Philip Metres

Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Philip Metres for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.

Wendy Xu

 
 
 
 

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