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Aesthetics
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XOXO, Ricardo Ortiz (1961–2025)
To hear him speak was to feel how literature can still shape a life; how beauty, thought, and feeling can move us forward together.
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Autism Aesthetics
About 10 years ago, I began to get impatient with disability studies. The field was still relatively young, but it seemed devoted almost entirely to analyzing how disability was represented—in art, in culture, in politics, et cetera—especially in the case of physical disability. This, I thought, fell short of the field’s promise for literary studies.…
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The Material Life of Criticism
Three new histories of literary study draw attention to the critic’s material life. Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History, by Joseph North, Paraliterary …
