The Brooklyn Rail

Critics Page

• The Tyranny of Certainty

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  By Erroll McDonald

• An Outside Man

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  By André Aciman

• On Peripheral Cyberpunk and the Politics of Technological Refuse

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  By Orlando Bentancor

• Romancing Breast Milk: “Just Like Mom Used to Make”

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  By Cat Bohannon

• Are We There Yet?

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  By Klara Glowczewska

• The Unbearable Burden of Fashion

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  By Anne Higonnet

• The Secret Radicalism of Anti-Procreationists

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  By Laura Kipnis

• Painting As Translation: Elise Ansel, James Hyde, and Alexis Ralaivao

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  By Alfred Mac Adam

• The Case for—and of—a “Saint Oedipa”: Reflections on Some Un-generic Echoes in Thomas Pynchon’s Novella The Crying of Lot 49

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  By James Nohrnberg

• On Teresa Pągowska

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  By Agnieszka Szewczyk

• Order Out

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  By Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards