Aide-Mémoire
...so much like me that he could pass for my twin, even my double.” Pamuk is aware of our awareness these similarities, but refuses to confirm or deny the reality...
Vibes
...rigid categories of the social, vibes travel far beyond their point of origin. Thanks to the derision they receive from the order of the tangible, they can pass unimpeded through...
The Resentment Machine
...with elite preschools now requiring that students pass tests and get references, before they can read or write. Many have lamented the rise of competition and gatekeeping in young children....
Butterfly Effect
...with decidedly less pleasure. "I never pass a night in a Greek monastery without having good cause to regret that I am not an hemipterist," she remarked, apparently sorry that...
Dance with The Devil
...and 6!”— turning around with one’s partner, moving backward to finish the pass — “in reverse now!”— steps seven through 12. The pattern, with slight variations, is then repeated. Among...
Sunday Reading
...pass market tests or bend to the ideologies of wealthy donors." 5 student strikes that show how students can win Georgia opens the first prison charter school "I hope the...
Seeping Through The Pages
...quantum laws guarantee erasure. These problems with purity laws have been compounded by a number of relatively recent federal policies enacted on Indigenous populations. Take, as one example, the Indian...
Appetites
...lines that trace past atrocities, and to let it all pass through you so you’re ready to ask for more. Appetite binds you to the social and develops a taste...
Five Questions with Elaine Equi
...facing that oncoming peril. Me and the Spotted Elephant by Maryam Iranpanah. Image from Artanian. Why or for whom does the myth of a ‘muse’ endure? I’m not sure the...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 1 & 2)
...thick or thin but something moves within it something moves no the film does not open with a close-up or a long shot it opens with many things that pass...
Kenya's Security Act: Everyday Life
...For instance, you will likely pass through a security check as you enter a mall and then be subjected to further checks depending on the store you patronize. Sometimes, armed...
Midwest
...the wind. The railroad track runs right beside the road. Trains pass, carrying identical crates all stamped with some company logo. It’s a zone that seems made for machines, not...
Collateral Damage
...in which the precariousness of freelancing and the constancy of the communication between reader and writer, it squeezes that space in a way that I worry makes the writing less...
Quiet on the Border
...languages, but only to pass along other people’s words. In this sense, Makina doesn’t live on “the other side” of the border; she lives inside it. She is the border....
Warning
...pass, while many more stayed home in fear of vague threats of indiscriminate violence. Frightened citizens called the FBI to report out-of-state license plates, while others preferred taking to social...
Kapow!
...to pass around. On the front, an oversized exclamation point slaps Marie Antoinette upside the head. There’s no summary on the back – just a foot kicking in glass. Reading...