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

Spring 2020

Winter 2019

The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Across the Rock

Writing the Immigrant Southern in the New New South

The Citizenship Question, or, The Actors of Dearborn

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

The Gay Horizon

“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...

Conjuring the Past: Cy Gavin’s Bermuda Paintings

on Census by Jesse Ball

on Loves You by Sarah Gambito

on Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison

on In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché

Etymology, Ecology, and Ecopoetics

“What Else Might Be Available”: Three Contemporary Lineages of the Poetry Pro...

Post-Metamorphic: The Poetry of Modern Motherhood

on Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu