...is a panacea for boredom. While Baal, self-described as a “novel of gothic horror,” does contain fantastic elements like Lovecraft, Poe, and Stephen King, it, like the writing of Donald...
...the village in the protest. Others, from a distance, will watch the army arrive and enact in real time what they just viewed on screen. Occupied time must contain many...
...threat—the degree of atmospheric risk or danger within a given environment. These discourses contain the presumed dangers posed by disabled bodies such as Knowles’ through the same language that the...
...they contain Gods? Bigotry, too, needs to believe in the thing being hated, far beyond the point where that thing exists: the bigot who throws bacon at a Mosque believes...
...and narratives that circulate anecdotally within the Iraqi diaspora. The stories are not simply stills, anecdotes which contain a cheap moral lesson, or images of dead bodies that we’re meant...
...first two-thirds of the book. Perhaps because the 1903 diaries contain little sexual content, Vargas Llosa improbably concludes that Casement was chaste until his mid-forties, and his first sexual encounter...
...served to contain the risk to non-Black queer bodies. To anyone whose politics call for the disruption of all forms of oppression, post-AIDS queer activism is more complicit than liberating....
...hoped to contain capitalism, The Wolf of Wall Street, which is set about a decade later, is a testament to the effects of that defeat. In the period separating Wolf's...
...contain more emotion and uncertainty than “male” speech should. It's this fusion of male and hysterical speech that allows the book to fully succeed in taking up space: claiming the...
...forms of oppression contain blueprints of resistance, and amid the slaughter and disappearance in Syria, many maintain hope for a justice deferred. Such hope can seem quaint in light of...
...feel, the material it should contain. More importantly, though, Basel and Ruanne treat the materiality of the archive centrally, rather than as an impediment or an afterthought. The Incidental Insurgents...
...haven't read already. But this piece has a couple of things I haven't heard before, like how some "oil-free" products actually contain oils. Whiter shade of pale: Pale skin is...
...contain some element of worry. But so many people have recommended Ware’s book that I will read it anyway. Read more. Consumed by Abstraction The amazing thing here is...
...But he doesn’t draw on formal or even narrative aspects of his novels; his book does not contain in its formal or narrative structure praise for aspects of Lawrence’s work;...
...whole new set of truths because of the unprecedented quantity of information they contain. But the big in Big Data is also used to denote a qualitative difference — that...
...is saying we can't be feminine." Meow: Intellectually, I buy the argument that Hello Kitty might contain hidden forms of cuteness-as-power in a postindustrial society. Practically, I can't stand the...