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MTC is running a series of reading & writing groups this spring & summer. Our first reading group on the English translation of Punjabi novella Keeru by Fauzia Rafique hosted by Nico Millman & the translator Haider Shabaz will meet on April 15 @ 6pm ET.
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For this week's essay, Sarah Sgro takes on "ideological sweat," mule runs, and the many ecosystems of Strava. Read it or it didn't happen. "Slop and sweat are not so much poison and its antidote as messy co-pollutants."
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wrote about da pitt, for @mid_theory mid-theory.com/2026/05/07/th…
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For MTC, Evan Goldstein pens this absolutely stunning piece of religion in The Pitt.
"Being secular is unbearable, but one cannot be otherwise; religion, in the most positive formation the show can give it, is at best something we remember fondly."
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Marcus Prasad returns with a heady and careful reading of Lanthimos’ BUGONIA and a reflection on just how far we might be willing to reach for meaning and for the chance to explain away the daily tragedy of having our lives stolen by extractive capitalism.
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"When bodies jiggle, shake, leak, or squirt they supply the evidence of a pleasure received. By transposing these expressions from humans to food, our chefs coax bodies to confess without claiming to have triumphed over a real woman’s self-command."
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We are back from our spring hiatus with a mixtape about spring cleaning! For Mixtape #8, we asked our editors and contributing writers what in culture they’re cleaning out for spring.
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Wrote a short missive for the indispensable
@mid_theory about relaxing my hater muscles—spring cleaning of the spirit—alongside several brilliant friends & colleagues:
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In our latest installment of our 'Adaptation Anxiety' series, Emily Coccia scrutinizes the oft-cited charge that a work of adaptation reads like 'fanfiction' as a short-hand for a host of complaints about recent works written and/or directed by women.
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I am extremely excited to share that my book Make Your Own Job received the 2026 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians. It is a real honor. oah.org/2026/03/26/oah-celeb…
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In our latest installment of our "Adaptation Anxiety" series, MTC contributing writer Omid Bagherli writes about 'Hamnet' and the Oscar-winning film's anxious relationship with O'Farrell's novel, with hands held and misread, and with "capital L Literature"
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Happy Oscar Sunday to all those who celebrate. For your consideration, we offer this brilliant analysis of Frankenstein and the abiding anxiety over adapting Shelley's monstrous masterpiece.
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Maggie Boyd reviews Nina McConigley's debut novel HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER and the author's self-conscious attempt to foil certain novelistic expectations.
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Maggie Boyd reviews Nina McConigley's debut novel HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER and the author's self-conscious attempt to foil certain novelistic expectations.
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Adaptation is everywhere! This spring , MTC is running a series called ADAPTATION ANXIETY, where we consider literary adaptations from the last few years. To kick off managing editor Martha Henzy takes on the unsexy absolution of the gothic monster!
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