Baghdad, Beirut, Paris: Six Women to Think With
...her home. And her latest painting is a gesture of sympathy with those suffering in Paris after the terrorist rampage there. “I love Paris because it symbolizes happiness to me,”...
Patriots
...more disruptive technological venture, Sam Lavigne offers C-SPAN 5, where you can catch all the latest “unadulterated hits of U.S. political dysfunction.” It’s C-SPAN for the overbusy gig chasers in...
All Eyez on Not-Me
...latest generation (though certainly not the first) to have our nostalgia commodified, and Holopac seems to be as defining an opening moment for it as any. As we cross some...
Prize Dog Runs Amuck And Dies of Shame
...politics of masculinity, pet ownership, and suicide. The first is a well-trod subject of 1890s history. The decade that saw the founding of the YMCA, professional sports, and America’s overseas...
Rhetoric and Tone: A Debate
...he has never even tried. I believe it is utterly childish to deflect that obvious journalistic/professional transgression with so cartoonish and incendiary an analogy and in calling it out as...
Paris/Maidan
Two Letters on the Uprising in France
Nice Book Reviews
..."phallic shadow"-master in the weekend review. But even less direct disapproval can ping a radar, if you've been out and about in the professional world for long enough. That’s pretty...
Drone-Court Advantage
...With all the attacks on his leadership from the professional left, it’s all too easy to forget that Barack Obama is by far the most liberal president in American...
Cleaning Up
...that makes sense of time and space, future and past. Writing is no different, a professional mirage built on the promise of doing something materially unnecessary. In the same way...
Kenya’s Security Act: The Human
...Kenya—its status as industry and profession, as world framing and world constricting—makes me very uneasy. It’s not clear that professional activists speak the same language or have the same aims...
Ambitious Conditions: Taiye Selasi's "Ghana Must Go"
...and relying” and sub-professional labor like selling flowers—floats totally beneath Freudenberger’s radar: Freudenberger finds implausible the pride that demands work over a hand-out, a kind of pride that must be...
Beauty Didn't Birth the Beast
...any sort of parallel between a woman's experiences or attitude and how conventionally attractive she was. Asking a professional beauty about her experiences as a model is one thing, but...
Emotional Work and Cultural Capital Ă Deux
...seems less distasteful to “use” beauty in personal relationships than in professional ones. In the same way, it’s easier for me to look at my own “emotional work” within intimacies...
Using Life: Instructions for Play
...translation more inventive than the linguistic plays of professional interpreters, but that they also offer models for those contemplating solidarity in a manner suggested by the playful work itself....
Sunday Reading
...of Overemployment The Journey of Everywoman The 1% Had a Fantastic 2010 Exotic Dancers in 1890 and the Plump Body Ideal » Sociological Images Weaponizing the Body Politic Professional Boredom...
Late Night Is All We Have
A diary from two days in Dallas