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Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2025 Big Other Book Awards!
We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2025 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim…
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Order and Freedom in a Chaotic Dreamscape: A Review of Seb Doubinsky’s The Sum of All Things
By Stephen Joyce In The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche argued that Greek tragedy arose from the clash between the…
Dancing with the Big Impossibilities of Time, Presence, and Language: A Review of Lance Olsen’s Always Crashing in the Same Car
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Happy 15th Birthday, Big Other!
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Interweavings: A Conversation with Mita Mahato
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