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Death of the Co-Author: How Betrayal and Alienation Shaped The Last Movie

In 1968, Roland Barthes heralded “The Death of the Author,” arguing that all writing is polyphonic in nature. If we believe him, meaning making is inherently open: layered voices s...

Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya’s “Let It Die” – Deactivating Representative Fictions | Onai Mushava | Review

  A mother of the nation in the tradition of Nehanda, the heroine of our story is a late veteran of Zimbabwe’s liberation war. But the voice that rises from her coffin, messes arou...

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s “Perte Loss”

“To traverse Cha's archive is to register the force of an artistic imagination that is itself not ‘fixe, mort’ but constantly mutating.”

The Death of Afrika Bambaataa and the Afterlife of Hip-Hop

One of the originators of the genre now haunts it.

The standing still disbelief of Death

O! future denying youth!...

Koji Suzuki Built the Well. The Author of ‘Ring’ Trilogy Dies at 68

There is a specific kind of damage Ringu does to you, and it is entirely the phone call’s fault. You get through the whole movie thinking you are watching it from outside, and then...

From Midnight Casts to Authorized Editions: Understanding the Market for Posthumously Produced Art

Works made after an artist's death fall into a fascinating gray zone, but that doesn't mean they're not a good buy.

Barthelme, the Houstonian

“Barthelme died in 1989, at the age of fifty-eight. I was at college and heard the news from a friend who worked at a Kinko’s to which one of the Barthelme brothers had brought Don...

Edgar Morin, ‘Grandfather’ of French Intellectuals, Dies at 104

A former member of the Resistance, he went on to a career spanning eras and disciplines. His books and pronouncements carried moral authority.

Óbito/Edgar Morin: Seguro salienta perda de um dos grandes pensadores do século XX

Numa nota publicada no ‘site’ oficial da Presidência da República, António José Seguro envia condolências à família de Edgar Morin e refere que recebeu com profunda tristeza a notí...

Keep Your Darlings

By Anna Vodicka In a famous University of Cambridge lecture, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch instructed young writers: “Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally...

‘Ringu’ Author Koji Suzuki Dead at 68; His Work Changed Horror Forever

The horror world is mourning the reported loss of legendary Japanese author Koji Suzuki, whose work forever changed supernatural horror […]

DEATHBED POEM

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The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love...

"One who has dared to be gloriously good and gloriously bad in one life. No Limbo for her. Rather let life itself grow living monuments out of trees and living words so that death...

How Do We Tell Our Dead | Okpara D.C Junior | Poetry

  How do we tell our dead That in this time and age Death is only a mercy~ To those whose night rained fire & bullets. How do we tell them That their world is kinder Than the l...

ブックデザイナーの祖父江慎さん死去　「伝染るんです。」「こころ」

The Last of the Mohicans and the Death of Culture

Dawson, MacIntyre, Virtue, and War at the End of a World The other evening I had the pleasure of watching with my father a film from my youth, Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohica...

“Favor,” by Franz Wright

“My death is in the second drawer.”

D IS FOR DEAD

D IS FOR DEAD...

RIP Desmond Morris

Should have been Lemmy.

When a mother faced death through writing

Sulaiman al MaamariThe writer is an Omani writer, poet and filmmakerOn August 9, 2024, social media circulated news of a tragic road accident involving an Omani family returning fr...

‘Urban Legend’ – Jamie Blanks’ Cult Classic Remains a Fascinating Examination of Horror’s Effect on Our Culture

With the tragic passing of filmmaker Jamie Blanks, Matt Konopka looks back at 'Urban Legend' & its exploration of horror's effect on culture.

No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life

"We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other."

Living

It was hard for us, the way you diedevery day, slowly and then all at once,just as such things are said to happen.Spring came, so soon it almost seemedyou could’ve waited, but I kn...