In 2018, Matthew Cheney took a phrase from a poem by Emily Dickinson and named his new website Finite Eyes. There, he would chronicle his experience as a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at a regional state university in New Hampshire, a state averse to financing education. Soon, he would contend with the effects of the COVID pandemic on his university, colleagues, and students, and he would have a front-row seat for the defunding and devaluing of higher education in America...

Magic stops. Men vanish. Worlds end. Life goes on.The stories in The Last Vanishing Man start with the end of the world, as a narrator seeks to imagine how the actions of an American terrorist ripple through his family. American violence and masculinity are topics that weave through these stories, as characters of various genders and sexualities get scarred by the wounds of manhood. But though these stories bounce similar themes off each other, they are not narrow ...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"And A Piece Of Coal Where Her Heart Once Beat" by Suzanne J. Willis"Missing Dolls Around the World" by Ai Jiang"Hunger" by Matthew CheneyThe Last Sound You Hear" by Steve Rasnic Tem

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"Rare Bindings" by Matthew Cheney"Burial" by Kristi DeMeester (reprint)"Marshman" by Sara Omer"Breathe, Blow, Burn" by Ai Jiang (reprint)

What is the role of the author in times of crisis? Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form examines how Virginia Woolf, Samuel R. Delany, and J. M. Coetzee developed literary strategies in common to cope with crisis periods they were anticipating, living through, or looking back on. Matthew Cheney outlines how the three writers shaped their art to create an author/audience relationship congruent with the goals of critical pedagogy espoused by such thinkers as Paulo Freire and be...

This issue is the hot summer wind that dries your tears. We wait in the shade of the red rock, hoping there is still water in the soil. We fear to dig, but we must, because there are sprouts to be rescued. This issue contains stories about the bonds of family (for both good and ill), stories about the changes that come over us as the seasons shift, and stories about how we decide to linger.Here are stories from Sarina Dorie, Elad Haber, Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito, H. L. Fullerton, War...

A revised and expanded edition of a classic work of criticism exploring how science fiction is not about the future but about the potential of the present.In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it uses the future as a means of talking about the present and its potentiality. By recognizing a text's specific "difference," we begin to see the quality of its...

From the four-time Nebula Award–winning author, a keystone text in literary theory and science fiction analyzing a 1972 work of dystopian fiction.The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—"Angouleme" was first published in 1978 to the intense interest of science fiction readers and the growing community of SF scholars. Recalling Nabokov's commentary on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Roland Barthes's commentary on Bal...

Focus on Matthew is part of the Focus Bible Study Series which contains studies of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.The Focus Bible Study Series is the perfect guide for in-depth scripture study. Each book in the series includes informative commentary, thought-provoking study questions and experiential group activities that encourage a deeper understanding of scripture. The journal format has lots of space for writing and encourages personal reflection and spiritual g...

An effective response to bushfires relies on accurate predictions of fire behaviour, particularly the rate of spread, intensity and ‘spotting’. This field guide has been developed to provide a systematic method for assessing fuel hazard and predicting potential fire behaviour in dry eucalypt forest. It will assist in making vital decisions that ensure the protection of fire crews and the community. This guide integrates Project Vesta research findings with the Victorian Overall Fuel Hazard Gu...