By: Joshua Glenn

“Extrapolating about a ‘semiosphere’ based on various pop-culture fragments makes me go pale with excitement…”

By: HILOBROW

Celebrating Begum Rokeya…

By: Fernande Blaze de Bury

Men were at intervals Titans or monkeys.

By: Leslie F. Stone

“Rays, forces,” said the giant, “held in subjugation by the power of light.”

By: Joshua Glenn

THE DIFFERENT GIRL

By: Mark Kingwell

“We offload our insecurity and psychic conflict onto The Other — as usual.”

By: Fernande Blaze de Bury

How could the shop-girl now be differentiated from the Duke’s daughter?

By: Joshua Glenn

“How do you, Mark, observe yourself at the movies?”

By: Mark Kingwell

“Think of the movie camera as the inverse of the V-K machine…”

By: Alfred Jarry

Thus the Supermale breathed his last.

By: Leslie F. Stone

“A gigantic sphere, easily a thousand feet high, it stood on the bowl’s rim.”

By: Joshua Glenn

“Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished.”

By: Alfred Jarry

“This man… he is the first of a new race!”

By: Mark Kingwell

“Doubles, revenants, split vision, mirror effects, mistaken identity…”

By: Leslie F. Stone

“The two stars indulged in a soundless, wordless battle.”