HKRB ESSAYS: VR and The Empathy Machine

Edwin Montoya Zorrilla discusses how Virtual Reality could transform and reprogram our relationship to empathy for good and for bad, Continue reading →

We Want Everything

Steffanie Ling reviews Nanni Balestrini’s new Verso novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969, discussing Marxism and worker solidarity then and now. Continue reading →

Track Changes

Francis Russell returns to the HKRB to review a literary history of word processing, discussing what it means to be a Continue reading →

White Sands

Nicole Mansour reviews Geoff Dyer’s new novel White Sands, giving a appraisal of its literary merits. Geoff Dyer, White Sands: Experiences from the Continue reading →

HKRB Essays: Stranger Things and the Nostalgia Industry

Grafton Tanner discusses ‘Stranger Things,’ retromania and the role of commodities in the nostalgia industry, from Taylor Swift to Donald Continue reading →

Foucault in Iran

Angus Reoch reviews Foucault in Iran:, arguing that it is never useless to revolt and grappling with the contradictions of Western Continue reading →

Low Shelf Angels

Thomas L. Lynn, Jr reflects on Luke Austin Daugherty’s Low Shelf Angels discussing existentialism and its rehabilitation. The piece includes some poems Continue reading →

HKRB Interviews: Bill Ashcroft

Grant Hamilton interviews cultural and literary critic Bill Ashcroft about his new book on utopia and postcolonial writing. They discuss Continue reading →