Super Position
...remarked that comic book stories already operate a little bit like dreams: the same plot is repeated, obsessive-compulsively, over and over; nothing changes; and even as the backdrop for the...
Revenge of the Thanatoids
...already read it before, all of it. Or to put it a bit less crudely, it’s difficult to imagine this book’s circulating outside one or two of the subcultures that...
Cool Women
When the apparently hard-edged rejection of identity betrays a hidden sentimentalism
Redistribution and World Building
A conversation with K Agbebiyi, creator of the Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund
History of Dialogue: Tamil Stories
...Tamils in the North, and in effect to destroy the Tamils in the area as an ethnic grouping. Rohini: I interviewed a senior army commander, who retired, he was waiting...
Marginal Returns
...to build feel, in our overly networked, no-brow, postmodernist society, a bit baroque. Still, what else was a black intellectual to do? What would I have done? Even hindsight, in...
Speaking in Memes
...any bit of authenticity, any deviation from the script and scream it to the crowd, hashtag and all. Romney’s Big Bird statement was surely prepared with one meaning in mind,...
No Contest
...version of those sports. That is a horribly boring possible future and a one that violates the sports fan’s bargain. The fans bankroll the enterprise, every bit of it, and...
#RhodesWar: Makunyiwe Macala
...how many ways and how swiftly an institution moves to protect a violent man from a bit of a reputation pickle. Later, you will be protesting with other students who...
The Color and the Sound
...complicated color pieces, a painting antidote that reveals some of the preternaturally darker corners of the most cheerful demeanor, like a biofeedback scan. “It can drive one a bit crazy,”...
Occupy The Library
...— and then, at 5, he declared the “The Library is Now Closed!” A hearty round of applause and finger-snapping greeted this bit of cognitive dissonance from the 80 or...
The Souls of Ivy Folk
...People be released in the same world where, as its protagonist Sam puts it, “Big Momma’s House 3 exists.” And it might seem a bit hyperbolic, but I’ll write it...
Built to Last
...economy and they do have a slight sense of loose change within the economy, possibly, that they might well have a bit more money to spread around, and they might...
What’s Killing Jessie Spano?
...that American television birthed, is there any as famous as this? None comes to mind. Berkley splays open Jessie’s anxieties in this scene; it’s a bit of committed, earnest acting...
Future Games
...to Fallout, the gaming industry is currently obsessed with apocalypse. Long a staple of TV and cinema screens, the zombie has become even more prominent on PlayStations and computers. Added...
Skin Feeling
...being skin. “I put quite a bit of study into the horn,” said Bird. How do you study that way? I keep coming back to the hotel, to the couple...