TABLE of CONTENTS

5 ON THE END OF THE CANON WARS

essays

17 MINOR RESURRECTIONS • Elisa Gonzalez

On failing to raise the dead

35 THE LULL • Nicolas Guilhot

Our age of catastrophic uneventfulness

53 WHEN REASON FAILS • Sam Kriss

The literature of mass shootings

71 THE SOUND MAKES

ALL THE DIFFERENCE • Lola Seaton Stanley Cavell’s style correspondence

87 THE PERILS OF THE PAST • Zeead Yaghi

Living through history in Beirut