in "Muriel Spark's Conceits," Timothy Bewes argues that Spark's novels "discover the means or the possibility of a thought that is subjectively uninhabitable," a thought "that only the novel form is capable of" — read it here: differencesjournal.org/writing/muri... /2

"I am not so much led to my identity as led astray by the unconscious," writes @jttremblay.bsky.social — read "Basically the Same: Todd Haynes's May December" here: differencesjournal.org/writing/basi... /3

"The genre of true crime poetics hollows out a small space for memory and remembrance, and layers writing onto the site of narrative inquiry" — read Petra Kuppers's "Land/Writing Feminist Alchemies: True Crime Witnesses" here: differencesjournal.org/writing/land... /4

"Drifting is an expression of surrender, an abandoning of oneself to the situation, letting the body move (along) in a quasi-voluntary manner, without purpose or even destination" — read Irving Goh's "Drifting Into Oblivion" here: differencesjournal.org/writing/drif... /5