Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: A Collection
...in Love" by Hannah Black "When Lovers Die" by Malcolm Harris "Love Homoscopes" an interview with The Jeane Dixon Effect "Sex on Inauguration Night" by Mike Thomsen "You're Right, I...
Dissecting the Frog
...die on the dissection table, jokes have a great deal to say about the people who make them. Anthropologist G. Legman emphasizes this point in the 1975 introduction to his...
The History of Dialogue (2): Joyce & Proust
...Paris. A few months previously, Joyce publishes Ulysses, his masterpiece. A few months later, Proust will die, the edits of his manuscript for the final volumes of his masterpiece, In...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...included. The book is Die Antiquertheit des Hassens (or L’odio è antiquato or The Obsolescence of Hate). It is about the historical loss of hatred through the increasing complexity and...
Polar Amplifications
In the Arctic, climate change and plastic pollution produce tangled damage for the people, plants, and animals that live there
Rape Culture: The War At Home
...I thank her for writing it, and allowing me to share it.) When it comes to gender-based violence, Kenyan men like to say "these are women’s issues." Many Kenyan men...
Together We Are None
...inescapability in opera, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, being the least “Wagnerian” of his works, is really about that — not only the composition of the perfect popular song but...
Sunday Reading
...filed complaints appeared to understate the problem. For 2008, for example, the government had previously tallied 935 confirmed instances of sexual abuse. After asking around, and performing some calculations, the...
Sickening Waste
...supreme value for Antigone, family in Antigonick can only help you suffer, as Ismene implies. Eteokles and Polyneikes die fighting against each other on the battlefield, Kreon causes Haimon's death...
The Journalist and the Suicide
...that going to war doesn’t make some people want to die. It’s the achievement of Demon Camp subtly to stand against all this, to see the Black Thing and PTSD,...
Sunday Reading
...least tried to, fiction and fact: Melville's tale describes the deep structures of a racism that were born in chattel slavery but that didn't die with it, a racism that,...
Craven Family Values
...not vanish after they are shot and fall out a window; they show up minutes later, bleeding heavily, about to die. They are not embodiments of sexual or moral fetishes...
You're Right, I Didn't Eat That
...my progress. I didn’t scream, “Vacation is where skinny goes to die!” or any other troubling quote I had read on the many Tumblr accounts blurring the line between motivation...
come on, get it!
with Thom Donovan, Malik Gaines, Ethan Philbrick, Wikipedia and the Online Etymology Dictionary
Butterfly Effect
...a butterfly," argues Edward Routledge in Routledge's Every Boy's Manual (1869). "Some of the larger-bodied moths have the strongest objection to die, and if you pinch them, or cut them...
Too Sexy for My Shirts
...17th century series of engravings depicting fanciful costumes relating to the different professions, featured in Claudius Saunier’s Die Geschichte der Zeitmesskunst (1903) – Source Illustrations from a 16th century manuscript...