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Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post If This Isn’t Niess, What Is? in the group American Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

“This engine’s magics have no purpose that I can see, other than to look and sound and be beautiful. And somehow—I shiver, understanding instinctively but resisting because this contradicts everything I have l […]
Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post Obelisks, Stone Eaters, and Lorists: The Many Faces of the Archive (Part Two of Two) in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

I’ve studied what I could of the Niess and their culture. There isn’t much left, and I have to sift the truth from all the lies. But there was a…a practice among them. A vocation. People whose job it was to see […]
Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post Obelisks, Stone Eaters, and Lorists: The Many Faces of the Archive (Part One of Two) in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

There is an order to life in the Stillness*
There is also a continuity. It is difficult for a society to prioritize the preservation of history when the preservation of life itself is such an immediate concern. […]
Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post What Stillness Society Understands About Puberty Ceremonies That We Do Not in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

Life in the Stillness is flawed. Deeply flawed. As Hoa informs us, it has been so for a long time. Yet when it comes to raising children, there is something they get right: they have puberty ceremonies. This […]
Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post Extractivism: Syl Anagist, and Us in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

In a 2016 interview with WIRED, back when The Fifth Season was the only book in the Broken Earth Series on the shelves, N.K. Jemisin was asked if she had “deliberately set out to write a critique of our soc […]
Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post Hoa’s Humor — Why Jemisin Jokes in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

From the very first chapter in the Broken Earth series it is made clear that our narrator is funny. The speaker, who 400 pages later we will find out is Hoa (The Fifth Season 443), tells us, after describing th […]
Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post Essun’s Personal Rifting: Fractures in Identity in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

Amidst the many shocking revelations of The Fifth Season, we came to know our singular protagonist by three names: Damaya, Syenite, and Essun. Since then, the identities of various characters have undergone […]
Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post A Blog Interlude in the group American Studies: 7 years, 10 months ago

A lump in the mattress. A snake on the plane. There are things you should be noticing here.

Hoa:

Pale
Immortal
In love with a mortal
Weird teeth

…Vampire??

*Theory by […]
Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post Jemisin, Sessing the Symbolic Power of Apocalypse in the group American Studies: 7 years, 10 months ago

One of the many books I regret not finding the time to finish is psychologist Robert Jay Lifton’s The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation. While I will discuss the insights and i […]
Jonah Goldstein wrote a new blog post El Niño and La Niña: Our Closest Analogue for Seasons? in the group American Studies: 7 years, 10 months ago

Seasons are one of the primary forces which shape Stillness society–lore is centered on surviving them, geomests in the universities debate the history and classification of them, and the worth of individuals is […]

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