Lauren Berlant

Lauren Berlant teaches English at the University of Chicago. She has worked on the formal and affective dynamics of citizenship throughout her career, most recently in Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press, 2011) and, with Kathleen Stewart, a book of autopoetic critical theory, The Hundreds (Duke University Press, 2019).

Features

The Citizenship Question, or, A Hundred and a Piece, a Leaky Citizenship Form

GOOGLE DOCS, AN AIRPLANE / MONTREAL, CHICAGO, AND AUSTIN / 3:10 P.M. CENTRAL TIME, 2 DECEMBER 2019. People shoplift citizenship like it’s a mink stole rather than a spiked choker, a freedom from a failed idea or a drive toward the shiny brand whose searing pain on application somehow numbs a history. It’s a cash cow […]

IN Spring 2020

Past Issues

Summer 2020

Spring 2020

The Lonely Ruralist

Cambridge People

The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

The Gay Horizon

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

“A Starting Point” (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

“As Complicated and Elusive as Reality”: María Berrio’s Many-Layered Collages (wit...

on Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

on The Prime Anniversary by Jay Wright

on Unsun by Andrew Zawacki

on Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

on Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of...

Old Fellas (on The Irishman, directed by Martin Scorsese)

on Census by Jesse Ball

on Loves You by Sarah Gambito