Miracles and Wonder, Faith and Diaspora: On Tope Folarin's "Miracle"
...faith, this is truly difficult: to come to terms with one’s doubting belief, or the extent to which one’s faith in unbelief is itself a kind of faithful blindness. The...
Some observations on Taiye Selasi's "Driver"
...Ufortunately, the story is not open-access, though Audible.com.au appears to have a free download of the podcast version of it. It may surprise you to learn that Taiye...
Silten wares
... The assembly line / It coughed And Thick was / The resultant silt It huffed / The silt thick And The trucks / Stunting like ...
To Respect a Ghost: Remembering Women Pioneers as They Wanted
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
—“but was it a peaceful protest?”
...He was bleeding profusely, and in obvious pain. A co-worker asked about the picture, and I told her that my friend was shot the day before protesting against the Israeli...
Remembering the Women of the Mathematical Tables Project
...for their phenomenally comprehensive and accurate tables. Blanch’s and Rhodes’s life experiences uniquely qualified them to transform hundreds of ordinary New Yorkers into an efficient, extremely reliable computing operation. Just...
Violence in ENGL 329: The 19th Century English Novel
...not from Québec, a fifth not from Canada, and we compose an international caste with prospects and a summer determinedly somewhere else. It’s no accident that Americans have pooled at...
Encounters With Lindsay
...—Cat Marnell In an email, September 26, 2012 *** Send your thoughts to [email protected] Flesh, Bone, There Is Nothing There by Sarah Nicole Prickett But did I see Lindsay Lohan,...
The Stifling Air of Rigid Radicalism
Can radical politics harbor a deadening conservatism?
Sunday Reading
...access to high-quality, alternative, online pathways to successfully complete and obtain. The internet could significantly benefit from a statutorily enacted, quality-first framework. While providing easy access, these systems could also...
Guest Post: The Politics of Tibetan "Plateau Redness"
..."Plateau redness" of Tibetan faces is so notable that it's inspired songs—so what is the significance of its potential disappearance? Image © Bbbar | Dreamstime.com “I remember when...
Paranoid Androids
...into the air in 350 B.C.E. The unmanned steam-powered object made a complete 200-meter flight, a self-propelled device channeling the programmer’s ingenuity and seemingly making it the machine’s own. Characteristically,...
Wall, Ground, Air
...wall and compare its securitarian spectacularity with the ones built at the edges of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas in the last decade. We then address the question of the ground...
IVAN: The Reconstruction of Narcissism
...http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2014/02/Ivan-Trailer-.mp4 IVAN: The Reconstruction of Narcissism, a debut composition by POWERHOUSE, explores the notion of using architecture and design as a vehicle for self-transformation by holding the design philosophy:...
Coming & Crying
...An interesting project to be aware of: Coming & Crying. Coming & Crying is an effort by Melissa Gira Grant and Meaghan O’Connell to publish a new book...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.22.12
...thin imperative is a part of eating disorders, yes. But it's dangerous to simplify an enormously complex disease as being about one thing. Cat's cradle: Jessica Wakeman puts the Cat...