Jeff VanderMeer’s Area X is a strange zone of transformation and transition.  How does one cope with living between the binary of humanity and nature?...

How has race become both (in)visible and hyper-visible in the Age of Trump?  How is race experienced as spectacle and everyday reality? Join Makeila, ...

What does it mean to migrate?  How does one fashion an identity suspended between two places – – home and destination? How is the king always (not) “a...

Does absolute power corrupt absolutely?  How would the world change if women gained new, unprecedented powers?  What is the relationship between power...

A bookforum on J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy for English 602, Reading Literature in the Age of Trump, at San Francisco State University.