Adam Joyce

Adam Joyce is a Duke Divinity graduate who lives and works in Chicago. Allergic to lists of hobbies and areas of ideological interest, he included none. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://

[From the Archives:] I Know What You Read Last Summer

Jun 11, 2019 5 min read Literature

[The following essay was originally published at the end of summer, back in 2014, but as you prepare to head to the beach in the next couple of months with a book at

Small Gifts: A Sort of Review of The Little Magazine in Contemporary America

Apr 4, 2017 9 min read

“[Little magazines] are snickered at and snubbed, sometimes deservedly, and no one would venture to say in a precise way just what effect they have—except that they keep the new talents warm

The Well Said Yes

Oct 11, 2016 2 min read

The world of art magazines is crowded—not because there are so many, but because the space itself is small. Like sharks thrashing about in a swimming pool, they carve out audiences and

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Renewing the Dialect of the Tribe

Jun 14, 2016 11 min read Humanity Literature

This piece was originally published last June. A writer and professor of medical humanities at UC Berkeley, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre [http://marilynmcentyre.com/] has authored numerous works—including Caring for Words in a

A Beautiful, Terrible Sound

Nov 4, 2015 5 min read Film & Television

The creak of a floorboard; the swift whispering shssh shssh of Victorian dresses; the slow scrape of a spoon over the edge of a cup; the indeterminate groan of a ghost. In Guillermo