“Houses are strange,” Mayumi Inaba writes. Her newly translated Mornings Without Mii turns that intuition into a quiet, piercing story of a woman, her cat, and the loneliness between the ancient and the modern.
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He’s the most important name in Silicon Valley you’ve never heard of.
Nick Land—the drug-fueled philosopher turned prophet of “accelerationism”—went from teaching cyberpunk theory at Warwick to inspiring the tech elite, the online right, and the internet’s new mystics.
Now the “father of accelerationism” is finally in the spotlight.
Embeth Davidtz's DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT is a passion project of the best kind, featuring a "disarmingly direct, uninhibited performance" from Lexi Venter that "elevates her in the cinematic pantheon of child actors." Review from Gavin Smith:
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The Perelman Performing Arts Center was unveiled in September 2023, steps from the footprint of the Twin Towers. Critics called it “glamorous” and “a retort to terrorism.”
But no one mentioned something almost too strange to believe: It’s a ringer for the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine. The cube-shaped building is even veiled in marble that recalls the Kaaba’s black kiswa, and one corner points directly toward Mecca.
This is not an internet conspiracy theory. It’s a thing anyone could see. But not a single one of the dozens of distinguished art and architecture critics and urban planners who commented on the site for dozens of high-level newspapers and magazines ever so much as noted the similarity to the Kaaba, even in passing. Standing on a site visible to hundreds of thousands of people, the building has somehow rendered itself invisible.
Agents, authors, if you think you have the next Raymond Carver or Richard Ford or Bret Easton Ellis or Donna Tartt or Don DeLillo, we have their editor:
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The literary Brat Packer and editor of everyone from Cormac McCarthy to Donna Tartt, fired from Knopf in 2019, has picked up his green mark-up pen again. https://t.co/bxQg0qKVzu