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Miranda Mellis

Miranda Mellis is the author of The Spokes, None of This Is Real, The Revisionist, and Demystifications (forthcoming, Solid Objects). Currently she is writing a novel called Two Problems and preparing a timely summer course—Afterworlds in Fiction and Film – at Evergreen, where she has taught since 2012.

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Metaphysics for the Pandemic

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The Art of Not Living

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Aug 31

The Trinocular: Summer Edition

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May 20

The Trinocular: Spring Edition

Miranda Mellis
Feb 21

The Trinocular: Winter in America (American Spring)

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Nov 5

The Trinocular: In Touch with the Great Outside

Miranda Mellis
Sep 3

The Trinocular: Critics in the Off Hours

Miranda Mellis
Sep 15

Losing The Plot

Miranda Mellis
Sep 1

Moveable Types: on Street Music

Miranda Mellis
Jul 7

The Method of Pain

Miranda Mellis
Jun 1
Interviews

An Interview with Bob Gluck

Miranda Mellis
Feb 1
Reviews

Best European Fiction 2010

Miranda Mellis
Dec 1
Interviews

An Interview Dyveke Sanne

Miranda Mellis
Nov 1
Reviews

American Genius, A Comedy

Miranda Mellis
Jun 1
Reviews

A Review of: Incarnate: Story Material by Thalia Field

Miranda Mellis

Metaphysics for the Pandemic

Miranda Mellis
Mar 18 2021
Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia (1835/1845), Eugène Delacroix Recently a spate of shows and films about being caught in a time loop have appeared (by my count, five), ...

The Art of Not Living

Miranda Mellis
Nov 18 2020
Not all artists are in perpetual conflict with their parents. But for those whose parental relationship is far from “good enough”—to use child psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott ...

The Trinocular: Summer Edition

Miranda Mellis
Aug 31 2020
Trick of the Light In the theater as in the plague there is a kind of strange sun, a light of abnormal intensity by which it seems that the difficult and even the ...

The Trinocular: Spring Edition

Miranda Mellis
May 20 2020
Lonely and Full of Wonder "How to make a moral order appear?"—Lorraine Daston Recently my sister shared a contemplation with me. She held out her hands. She lifted one ...

The Trinocular: Winter in America (American Spring)

Miranda Mellis
Feb 21 2020
If we find it easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism, it is perhaps in part because, as Pete Brooks points out in his essay “Prison ...

The Trinocular: In Touch with the Great Outside

Miranda Mellis
Nov 5 2019
It’s cold and flu season. There’s a bronchial illness going around so powerful that my partner, who in the thirteen years we’ve been together I’ve never seen sick more than a ...

The Trinocular: Critics in the Off Hours

Miranda Mellis
Sep 3 2019
The Trinocular, Miranda Mellis' new column, takes as its point of departure cultural attitudes to the seasons: their moods, transitions, and increasing contradictions. One ...

Losing The Plot

Miranda Mellis
Sep 15 2017
Hiring in various kinds of “security” has increased exponentially in recent years, from jobs in cybersecurity and private security to prison guard and border patrol employment.

Moveable Types: on Street Music

Miranda Mellis
Sep 1 2017
Growing up in San Francisco I loved to walk everywhere and very much appreciated free culture in the form of street music.

The Method of Pain

Miranda Mellis
Jul 7 2017
In Visceral Poetics, poet Eleni Stecopolous’ recent book on, among other things, struggling with chronic pain while trying to write a dissertation about Antonin Artaud ...

An Interview with Bob Gluck

Miranda Mellis
Jun 1 2013
Some years ago the poet Rob Halpern, in that OMG-you-haven’t-read-him? way that we have about the authors we are passionate about, insisted that I read Bob Glück. Enabling my ...

Best European Fiction 2010

Miranda Mellis
Feb 1 2010

An Interview Dyveke Sanne

Miranda Mellis
Dec 1 2008
… Like the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is also built deep inside of a mountain. Unlike Yucca Mountain, the Vault, which is the ...

American Genius, A Comedy

Miranda Mellis
Nov 1 2006
 

A Review of: Incarnate: Story Material by Thalia Field

Miranda Mellis
Jun 1 2005

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