"Lovecraft sought to visit the horrible truths of deep time upon the island of ignorance formed by the conventions of literary realism."

From our Spring 2012 issue, read Mark McGurl's "The Posthuman Comedy": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

"Vermeulen thus invents a way of seeing screen gestures that suggests the audience occupies a position similar to the readers of 'writerly' literature described by Roland Barthes."

New in review, Kyle Stevens on Timotheus Vermeulen's Plastic Time: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/kyle_stevens_r…

"Imagine a Chinese room without Kant inside it. This room is quite closed up and we cannot see into it. The only openings are two tiny windows or perhaps slits in opposite walls."

From our Spring 2008 issue, read Robert Morris's "The Idle Idol": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

"Fish swimming in coral reefs, for example, usually exhibit not only dazzling dazzle patterns but also countershading."

From our Winter 2008 issue, read Michael Taussig's "Zoology, Magic, and Surrealism in the War on Terror": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

"She argues that the most rigorous account of representational politics available to us today requires restoring to thought a dimension that modernity . . . has systematically occluded."

New in review, Cassandra Guan on Joan Copjec's Cloud: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/cassandra_guan…

What did Babbage mean when he declared his analytical engine “equivalent” to human memory? This article from Critical Inquiry traces the Victorian history of computing through mnemonics: ow.ly/5HUB50ZYIj5 @CriticalInquiry

"This appreciation of theater’s cruelty is what burns at the icy center of Hedda Gabler."

From our Autumn 2017 issue, read Julia Jarcho's "Cold Theory, Cruel Theater": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

"Admittedly, again, the historical Hegel would never have imagined the extent of the 'freedom' claimed by modernists and would no doubt have been horrified by abstract art."

From our Autumn 2002 issue, read Robert Pippin's "What Was Abstract Art?": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

Join Cita's editorial director Jessi Haley for a virtual reading group on "New Life in the Public Domain," part of Bathers Library's fall reading group series. Mondays starting October 26, 5-7 pm PT. Open at anyone, anywhere; sign up now! tinyurl.com/citapress

"People fail to tell their stories for many reasons: shame, confusion, the willed forgetting that comes with trauma."

From our January 2004 issue, read James Dawes's "Atrocity and Interrogation": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

"This comedy of errors becomes even more hilarious where the social contract between the intellectuals and the administrators is concerned."

From our new issue, read Vilém Flusser's "Problems with Moles’s Concept of 'Freedom'": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

"The passages in the book on 'dissent,' and on society's dependence on "dissent" for its existence, are the book at its most compelling."

New in review, Athanassia Williamson on Markus Gabriel's Fictions: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/athanassia_wil…

Read Anne Carson's "Stillness" in the Autumn 2021 issue of Critical Inquiry.

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Nobel laureate Anne Carson roves from Sappho to John Cage to Virginia Woolf in "Stillness," an essay published in Critical Inquiry. Read it FREE in October: ow.ly/MyHm50ZWuOo @CriticalInquiry

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"This comedy of errors becomes even more hilarious where the social contract between the intellectuals and the administrators is concerned."

From our new issue, read Vilém Flusser's "Problems with Moles’s Concept of 'Freedom'": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

"Ideology, they argue, inhabits not only representational content: bias is 'embedded in the logic of representation itself.'"

New in review, Chen Liying on Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert's Vector Media: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/chen_liying_re…

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Congratulations, Anne Carson! CI lecturer in 2019.

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Read Anne Carson's "Stillness" in the Autumn 2021 issue of Critical Inquiry.

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