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Johanna Skibsrud
From award-winning writer Johanna Skibsrud, Medium uses language as a bridge across experience, sensibility, and time.
??These deeply resonant and performative poems share the lives and perspectives of women who-in…
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A hypnotic meditation on memory … reaffirms the potential for storytelling to offer clarity and redemption. -New York Times Book Review
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Haunted by the horrific events he witnessed during the Vietnam War, Napoleon Haskell is exhausted from years spent battling his memories. As his health ultimately declines, his two daughters move…
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These loosely connected hypnotic stories about memory and desire, from Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud, introduces us to an astonishing array of characters who time and again find themselves face…
Arthur and Douglas Sinclair, an impoverished veteran and his son, make the arduous journey from Kansas to join the march. Alden and Sutton Kelly, the rebellious children of a powerful…
Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to reconfigure subject-object relations and point toward new possibilities in creative and…
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Nine loosely connected, hypnotic stories about memory and desire showcase one of fiction’s bright new voices.
A fresh look at poetry’s vital role in exploring, and extending, our sense of what it means to be human.
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Rather than making something out of nothing, what follows is an endeavour to express the potential of language and thought to encounter what is infinitely beyond both yet to be…
Johanna Skibsrud,Sarah Blacker
An unseen narrator compares a newborn infant with different types of animals.
