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Big Other at Seventeen: On Unruly Writing, Fruitful Dissensus, and the Art of Keeping Art Alive

What’s seventeen years in internet years? Four thousand platform migrations, twelve dead social networks, three algorithmic regime changes, and…

“Cinema plus psychoanalysis equals the science of ghosts.” —Jacques Derrida “Ghosts are not evil things to be feared or fought,…

With beautiful skin, a foreign language of skin, a surface heretofore unknown and pliant— Oh, I am pursuing…

In the Shed of Lachrymose fester-squall cumuli accumulate dirge-dusk dark dampen tremor wart scaffold vamp troughs lousy with disconsolate…

By Elijah Sparkman Peter Markus lives downriver. I live in Hamtramck, MI. Sometimes we meet in the middle and…

1. Looming the dark riddle repeated harbor sky an episode gradual but less than as if scooped from blue …

Perfume In the expensive gym, the girls are uncertain. They parade their bodies, young or old or approaching some…

Meditation on Roget’s Paradox of Choice You have your preferences proclivities inclinations predispositions tendencies favorites You make your …

Philoxenia Darling strangers populate my life, ones I love dearly, more than life herself—a prophet and a blind woman,…

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2026 Big Other Book Awards! This marks the…