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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Kate Munning

The Flight Issue

December 15, 2015

Kate Munning

Flight is not the same thing as escape. Flight comes before. We observe flight as crystalline, etched in our minds by the way we fetishize it. Flight brings to mind expansive images of migratory birds instinctively flapping southward and BBC … Continued

A Review of The Island of Last Truth by Flavia Company

October 12, 2015

Kate Munning

Translated from the Catalan by Laura McGloughlin (New York, NY: Europa Editions, 2012) In my social circle, there’s a moment at every party in which I suddenly realize my friend Alex is commanding an audience with one of her stories. Her … Continued

A Review of MITKO by Garth Greenwell

July 17, 2014

Kate Munning

(Oxford, OH: Miami University Press, 2011) It seems unlikely that a novella with an opening scene involving anonymous sexual encounters between men would turn out to be a fluid, poetic internal monologue on some of the weightiest universal issues out … Continued

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