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If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you?
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Anneke
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yearning for the sea short fiction in Strange Horizons, Baffling, Nocturne, Hex, others articles editor at Strange Horizons rep'd by Martha Perotto-Wills annekeschwob.info
![WHAT HAPPENED WAS SO VAST AND
TERRIBLE, "absolute in its terribleness,"[3]
and its cause so obscure that it became, in
Marguiles's sardonic formulation, "a perfect
culture for growing theory."[4] The number
of "explanations" offered in the first month
alone, by experts and amateurs, was
bevond count,'5] many of them untestable,
absurd or meaningless ("a local suspension
of the laws of physics"; "invasion by an
alien species"; something called
"renumerology").[6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreib4ojpofa5iri3kydt2ici7juohcqmj52pdztj2jup6poxim47t64)
