Reading the ICC Witness Project: About Witness #26 and #47
...must move on. In part, this is because we tend to construe “memory” as a relatively passive act, because we are simply recalling to mind things that we already remember,...
Black President
...way the example of The Passion of the Christ, showing what could be possible by pushing torture to the brink. I think that the Hollywood movies that came out tended...
Some Assembly Required: Parlor Games and Their Uses
...simply refused to allow their guests to escape unamused. They played cards, contemplated rebuses or exchanged riddles. Before roaring fires, children pantomimed and adults struck poses in elaborate tableaux vivants...
Open Secrets: Literature as Gossip in the Digital Age
...photos, endlessly falsified and therefore perfectible online personas, we are all invited to construct ourselves closer to what we dream of being than what we simply are. Authenticity becomes a...
Abel, Buried by a Crow
The 1915 Armenian Genocide endures in the very fabric of Turkish society—but who remembers and who takes responsibility?
Dead and Going to Die
...before the camera. Simply being himself was out of the question; the observer effect created by the camera’s presence so heightened one’s self-consciousness that it was no longer possible to...
“What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records”
...a comrade of his previous debaucheries.” The racist, like the reformed sinner, creates “a pornography of his former life…In order to insure that he will not slip back into the...
Editors' Note, Vol. 33: Dicks
...(and free access to our archive of back issues) today. *** What even is a dick, anyway? A dick can be made of the material of a penis or a...
Eco Chamber
...Jerome passage derides the narrator’s own Umberto Eco forgery. His repeated condemnation of Baker’s work as derivative of Eco comes secretly installed with a condemnation that the narrative is derivative...
After Infinitude
...come into being. At the game’s end we ensure that Columbia never existed—our game, as it were, never happened. It is this paradox that has sent players to forums and...
Do the Robot
...and assure that they won't be gamed. Then companies could hire people who don't have to fake what passes for genuine at that particular juncture. They could always replace these...
A Pueblo, a World
What from outside seems an extraordinary feat of organization is nothing more than the everyday forms of collective life
Revenge of the Thanatoids
...the whole of Work could exist without its close association with credentialed elites is simply passed over here. A little further on, the preface expresses a rather different aim. Work,...
Dicks
...the work. “Is the penis simply the vagina with more chutzpah?” wrote Vishnu Strangeways in his first-year anatomy notes, revisited here in his essay on genital reassignment. For Strangeways, medicine...
Craven Family Values
...made sure his own filmmaking style was not just no longer risk-averse but incapable of recouping its outlays. He cleared the ground and raised the prices and set the rules...
You Belong Here, Beloved Reader - An Interview with Diriye Osman
"I really wanted The Butterfly Jungle to have the energy of a super-fly Somali sheesha session"