Fool

Combining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to reconfigure subject-object relations and point toward new possibilities in creative and critical thought.

Johanna Skibsrud is Associate Professor at the University of Arizona. She is the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of numerous works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, including The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics (2020), Island (2019), and The Nothing That Is: Essays on Art, Literature, and Being (2019).