"A sort of post-colonial studies joke": Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation
Do you need to read Camus before you read Kamel Daoud?
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading has become unstuck in time
Writing a bodaboda to Rideavism
border-border
When Game of Thrones Stopped Being Necessary
In the context of romantic high fantasy, the show’s sado-masochistic narrative engine had a moderately subversive purpose.
Summer Reading
Some newish and upcoming literary-type books that didn't make the NYT's silly summer reading list
Sunday Reading
What is Mad Men? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. We are each our own devil, and we make this world our Mad Men. Mad Men is—other people! The hottest places in Mad Men are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. I
What Even Can You Even Say About The Princess-Man of North Sudan?
What is the emoji for vomit.
Witnessing Patriarchy
Men Witness, Women Gender.
Sunday Reading
What if the worst place to get brunch in Brooklyn is... ourselves?
On the Variety of Ways to Not Praise Charlie Hebdo
There are so many excellent ways to not praise Charlie Hebdo.
Islamophobia as Narrative Device, in the Second Person
There is a lot to say.
Sunday Reading
John Kerry and Bill Clinton Fistfight in Kenya
Defacing Bush Colleges
Throwing poo.
Chinua Achebe, No Longer At Ease
The Strange Second Death of Chinua Achebe
Contexts and Perspective
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recently did a two-part interview with Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu, in which she re-visited the “boy-gate” clusterstupidity for which I was, inadvertently, the…
Could Have Doing More to Clarify
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recently did a two-part interview with Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu, in which she re-visited the “boy-gate” shitstorm that I was, inadvertently, the proximate…