long-form
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Latest Essays
A discussion of the Norwegian novelist Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold’s tortuous autofictional journey (back) to humanness, and beyond.
An essay on Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights that ponders questions about the novel, personhood, and “novelistic personhood.”
An essay comparing the divergent ways in which the aesthetic worlds of John Wick film franchise and Homer’s Iliad frame depictions of violence.
My take on the Hungarian phenom’s strangely apocalyptic worldbuilding.
Thoughts on gender and genderlessness in Sphinx, the beguiling 1986 novel by the Oulipian experimentalist Anne Garréta.
Reflections on the little-known princess of Zanzibar and her fascinating German-language memoir.
The Exploded View is a literature blog featuring essays by Taylor Eggan.
Taylor is a writer and scholar based in Portland, Oregon. He teaches in the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.