Issue 20

| By Macey Phillips

[ March 5, 2026 ]

When Realism Falls Short, Absurdism Provokes Meaning: A Review of Kim Samek’s I Am the Ghost Here

According to philosopher and writer Albert Camus, absurdity exists somewhere between a human need and a silent world. It involves an “irrational and wild” longing for clarity and often defies meaning-making. This is the rub that writers have been sorting out for centuries—interrogating the horrors of existence, hoping to derive a semblance of meaning. Kim …

| By Michael Nye

[ Issue Issue #20 ]

Autumn 2024

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