Some Kind of Exile
...so scary, I thought I was going to die. And then our driver just started the car and drove away, and he was cursing them, calling them vermin. These people,...
Post-coloniality Sells
...hand, readers pick on them quite effortlessly. Maybe it’s better not to be aware, though! For me, the comparison with Achebe is interesting because you’re doing something different. For example,...
Don't Look Now
...original Times piece—how could this young woman’s neighbors have let her die when the police stood ready to help—has been answered in different ways, but the question has remained the...
Seeing and Nothingness
...perversity." -- Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1912) , couples quarrel and old men die in the next room. He overhears confessions that make him question the...
Desecration Hardware, 2 (The Strand Antiqued Mirror Collection)
...even obscenely large, knowing they would have to be cut again if we didn’t want to introduce a dangerous eurythmia, because even if we couldn’t die, an inconstantly vibrating heart...
Reading Sofia Samatar: Vallon
...other things, a repository of the bearable, a witness to silence. Jissavet desires two things: to live forever and to die properly. * Even though I’ve been trying to convince...
Kill Rock Stars
Jeff Jackson’s new novel is one we’ve all heard before
Like a Dog
Despite what Shakespeare thought of dogs, they are like heroes who risk betrayal and harm by their own nature.
Sunday Reading
...mean for combating campus rape Trump's emerging higher education platform The coming culture wars in Trumplandia Professors who peddle mega-mergers Racism with no racists "Nice, decent folks" Trump and the...
CHAT ROOM: Activist Microcelebrities
...comes into play nathan: live by the meme, die by the meme. ecologic thinking would say that there may be an environmental limit. i think the hype cycle for memes...
David Graeber's Debt: My First 5,000 Words
...doomed to starve and die young – while others are born creditors, born to run for president? The question quickly becomes, then, why don’t we put it like that? Why...
Fame Shame
...put the dissemination of one’s own message above all else. White aliens taught white aliens that to die alone or a nobody was the worst thing a woman could do.”...
Intimacy as Text; Twitter as Toungue
...carriage, our relationships once again live and die in the texts by which we barter with each other. The internet age unavoidably resembles the 19th century novel’s idea of human...
Sunday Reading
...the Present The distribution of Islamic dirhams in Anglo-Saxon England A Karamanli Turkish fragment in the Cairo Genizah A Musical Minefield: Composing the Turkish Nation-State Orientalism in Mozart's Die Entführung...
Sunday Reading
...and see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when he came to die, discover that he had not lived. nathan jurgenson “at every history...
History Against the Grain
...unprecedented ecological and subsistence crisis. Famine after famine stuck their communities. When they weren’t suffering famine, there were suffering food shortages. Those who didn’t die from starvation were killed more...