Calling on “black cyberpunk,” Roy Christopher’s book Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future bestows the genre with a ghostly pallor, risking its political potential
...version of himself. “The Marc and Tom Show” is neither of those things. Though it might just seem like an extra episode of WTF, those shows have a strict guest/host...
...An earlier version of this essay appeared at Generation Bubble Most of the 1990s I spent in graduate school studying literature. I mostly remember this period now as...
...other way. This is just the way life should be organized--it’s “natural”! A certain version of the domestic becomes something we are all expected to aspire to, to the extent...
...hospitable, but we also have boundaries. 12. We are not on some train headed toward your version of the world. If you're tempted to tell us how we can become...
...more clearly how our sight only approximates reality, and how the high-resolution image may offer a “truer” version of reality — a hyperreality. The media’s interest in photo manipulation has...
...for an urban utopia, however—a Vienna in a box—was never implemented. As hard as it strives to be a safer, sanitized version of the city, the shopping mall cannot escape...
...which seems to have been excised from the chapbook version: “In the privacy of my merry heart and the not so private laughter of my kin, I suddenly remembered the...
...it was joined by officials, including the education minister, who sat in a large circle with the silent version of the revered leader and awkwardly drank tea.' Jasmin Ramsey notes...
...a newer, hipper version of the same pie-in-the-sky theology of the black church, with Heaven being replaced by The Mothership. But I don’t think Henry Dumas, Sun Ra, Parliament Funkadelic...
...prison problem, he tackles the question of race: “Implicitly or explicitly, law-abiding citizens think of prison as a secular version of hell, an analogy often used in contemporary descriptions of...
...now live, fans persist as the version of the fanatic the market has come to rely on to keep its flagging energy up. On this market, billions of dollars are...
...a short story can live or die by a single effect. A short can have flat characters, weak description, and be a bad version of some other story you’ve heard...
...the amorphous, unsure realm where that performance mostly falls flat. For a version of this essay with academic citations, click here In this nebulous terrain, the tears keep coming. One...