The issue includes ten essays that engage the work of J.M. Coetzee, Coline Serreau, Wallace Thurman, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Margaret Atwood, and Sylvia Plath, among others. From the biopolitics of haiku to the rhetoric of the network, the… more...

This superb special issue includes colour images, drawings, and ten essays on seeing and blindness. The issue broaches such topics as blindness and intimacy; scotoma; sense substitution; aesthetic blindness; visualizing disability; empathy; animal’s eyes; and “the blind bard.” more...

Ranging across such topics as autism, melancholia, race, speculative fiction, the city, the popular periodical, realism, and (self-) representation, this ten-essay issue engages the work of a number of thinkers, artists, and writers, including Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Marilynne Robinson,… more...

In several cases through a thematics of “the hand,” the essays in this richly diverse issue consider the verbal-visual or word-image relation, the transition to electronic textuality, trauma, selfhood, witnessing, poetics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, cosmopolitanism, and sovereignty. more...

This Mosaic “Feature Issue” headlines the remarkable work of Alphonso Lingis, opening with a public lecture delivered by him at the University of Manitoba in October, 2012, including an interview/conversation with Lingis, and an original essay-reflection written by… more...

This eleven-essay issue, marked by diversity, is yet woven by common threads, by recurring concern with the logic of both-and, with lateral thinking, purloining, prolonging, and, not the least, polyvocality. Some of the essays deal with memory and… more...

Several recurrent themes mark the ten essays in this outstanding Mosaic general issue, among them: trauma, silence, autobiography, deportation memory, the idea of community, Darwinian criticism, fetal-alcohol narrative, the photobook, the poetics of non/sense, and the regional imaginary.… more...

What is happening in the space between poetry and philosophy today? The thirteen essays collected in the March 2012 Mosaic special issue take up this question―in thirteen different ways. For example, in one essay, Heidegger’s question, “What is… more...

This is the second of two special issues featuring selected proceedings from the Mosaic October 2010 Freud After Derrida conference. Papers from two of the conference keynote speakers open this special issue, which also includes essays on the… more...

This is the first of two special issues that publish proceedings from the Mosaic October 2010 Freud After Derrida conference. Three of the conference keynote speakers and nine presenters are featured in this issue, which addresses such themes… more...

This general issue models the interdisciplinarity that Mosaic is all about. It includes eleven essays that engage a diverse range of topics, among them: ecocritical theory’s theory, animal ethics, the status of “the subject,” the gaze, trauma and… more...

This Mosaic special issue features an interview with renowned teacher and theorist of voice, Kristin Linklater, along with essays and reflections on her work, on voice, and on the Santorini Voice Symposium that took place in July 2009.… more...

This is an issue of wonderful collaborations and juxtapositions. Look for essays that explore unexpected literary and critical hinges: that read Salman Rushdie together with Jean-Luc Nancy, William Faulkner with space theory, Gertrude Stein with Alfred North Whitehead,… more...

Don’t miss this tightly knit, yet richly varied, issue featuring essays on space and movement in space—migrancy, walking, sound, and the synaptic—as well as essays on disciplinary power in the university, film adaptations of Emma, epideictic rhetoric, Atwood’s… more...

According to Hegel, since it transforms mere stone or wood into the human figure, sculpture constitutes the proper centre of classical art and is at best complemented by poetry. What has happened that enables Arthur Danto to suggest… more...

This is a richly interdisciplinary issue: ten essays that bring literary-critical insights to bear on comics, film, fiction, music, vocality, phonography, photography, cartography, psychology, phrenology, and history of science. From Brokeback Mountain to “The Fall of the House… more...

Featuring a Mosaic “Crossings” series interview with, and two essays by, Peggy Kamuf, this is a fascinating issue that engages opera, criticism, poetry, fiction, fairy tale and film, and that includes essays on the work of Hélène Cixous,… more...

This general issue includes eleven essays, at least four of which deal with “nature” (ecology, eco-poetics) as a prominent theme, approached in two cases through “trees”: through human/arboreal relations and through gendered “tree-scapes” in the art of Emily… more...

In this, the second of a two-part Mosaic special issue on Sound, “voice” emerges as a prominent theme, approached through studies of voice recording, queer vocality, memory, archive, sound poetry, iteration, and the figure of Echo. The issue… more...

This issue, the first of a two-part special, takes the study of sound into literary and critical practices where work on visuality and the gaze has held sway, and it suggests the importance sound studies hold for the… more...