Little Boxes on a Hillside
...that gentrification has accelerated in the area. The least exhilarating part of Happy City, a section on municipal codes, may actually contain the book’s most crucial proposal. Every city and...
Teaching While Black
...I am either good-natured or sarcastic about this mistake. Early in the term I might say, “I may be large and contain multitudes but I am also singular, so please...
Judging Books by Their Covers
...small editions through their aesthetic uniformity, editorial precision, and eclectic set of authors. The Pearls, to date, contain seven titles: Borges’ Everything and Nothing, Federico Garcia Lorca’s In Search of...
Commies for Christ
...because, before the law, he sought to be equally exempt. As the Franciscan movement grew in influence, church rulers became determined to contain it. Francis deferred to their authority for...
Beyond Terrordome
...might contain. Nothing is more antisocial than claiming privacy as a abstract prerogative. This suggests not just that you've got something to hide; worse, it suggests you are ashamed of...
Cops 2
...memorial sites indicate the countrywide scale of cop memory, an anxious reaction seeking to contain growing countrywide resistance to police control. In Detroit, the collapse of its industrial base has...
runs/Away from his own applause.
...the editor, but also through poems that intentionally fall short of their goal.Spell’s poems contain fragmentary ideas. They alternate between stark, rigid columns and airy pieces with sprawling indentations. They...
You Really Got Me
...in actuality, “really” and “truly” here, instead of being speech strengtheners, are speech weakeners. They contain an overassurance, a placation, a soothing of the soul—a technique Joan might have used...
Paranoia at the Disco
...the film’s claims are suspect, but even its most suspect claims contain truths. Even the Village People’s absurd denials have some truth to them. The country, after all, is filled...
Bound to Black
The reemergence of chloroquine scratches a persistent imperial itch for biological race
Baby Heists
For the last half century, the international adoption of orphans has been used to cast imperial warfare and extraction as humanitarianism
Dark Pools
...prescription for curbing those practices is likewise vague. That doesn’t mean the book doesn’t contain tools for someone else to raid. After Physical Audit was done, Cassie made a short...
Dream Workers
A review of Nabokov’s Dreams
Romancing the Archive
...archive might contain information about Tucker, Etzler, and the TES that could float a book. Filtered through Miss Ramsol’s perspective, the emails record Antoni’s attempts to navigate the archive, to...
Sunday Reading
...century, when the microscope was invented, the discovery of such objects posed a profound problem: if we humans were God’s ultimate purpose, why would he create anything that we couldn’t...
Paths to Gory
...human conscience much like hedgerows and locked doors subdivide the landscapes humans settled in. In The Landscape of Fear the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan describes the relationship between fear and technologies...