Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from
public view. Inside the walls, imprisoned people all over the world stage theatrical …

This article argues that three contemporary novels–Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion
(2014), Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room (2017), and Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest …

Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life gives us a
new way to view contemporary art novels, asking the key question: How do contemporary …

During the Ebola outbreak that hit Guinea in 2014, most of the people employed at the
Wonkifong Ebola treatment unit were from Africa or Cuba. Despite the recruitment of black …

In Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric
American Literature, author Jenna Grace Sciuto analyzes literary depictions of sexual …

Abstract This paper analyzes Rachel Kushner's 2018 novel, The Mars Room, in relation to
the work of critical geographers including Neil Smith and Ruth Wilson Gilmore in order to …

Recent novels respond to the current crisis of democracy by invoking literary fiction as a
means to cultivate empathy and as a model for more inclusive forms of community. But such …

This essay interrogates the carceral geography of the California Central Valley by examining
Rachel Kushner's novel The Mars Room (2018), which unfolds the life and limiting …

Expressions of dislike or hate towards a group of people can be manifested in different ways
and can have different motives. Speakers and writers always have the possibility to choose …

This paper aims at reconsidering aspects raised by criticism of Rachel Kushner's The Mars
Room (2018). While almost universally praised for its contents, the novel has been met with …