2022 – Page 4 – BIG OTHER

Oscar Wilde on Art, Astonishment, Disobedience, and More

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! Here are some quotes from the writer: “[A]ll sentences are sentences of death.” …

Happy birthday, Italo Calvino! Here are quotes from the writer: “What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other…

Happy birthday, Michel Foucault! Here are some quotes from the philosopher and historian: “But couldn’t everyone’s life become a…

Happy birthday, Friedrich Nietzsche! Here are some quotes from the philosopher: “Is it better to out-monster the monster…

I’ve had the deep pleasure of knowing Lance Olsen (for at least thirteen years now), reviewing his work, interviewing…

By Andrew C. Wenaus Information theory is not concerned with meaning; instead, it focuses on the relationships that emerge…

Thirteen years ago today, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing its…

By JC Holburn Skye Cleary is the author of How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest…

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Ángel Lozada! Celebrate by reading “Fading Star” (translated by David Auerbach), which we published as…

The evening of readings from Big Other’s Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology at the People’s Forum on August 30,…