Five Questions with Jaswinder Bolina
...wouldn't have to worry anymore about tweaking or revising them any—something I do a bit obsessively—because I simply wouldn't be able to at that point. What do you do at...
The Viral Virus
...of your life goals and not have generalized anxiety disorder. You can enjoy watching Netflix alone and still be a little bit of an extrovert. It’s complex! You’re complex. But...
Walter White Supremacy
...Breaking Bad so sparingly depicts. When we do see White's ultimate customers, they're zombies: all scabs and eroded teeth. We're not talking about impulse buyers or comparison shoppers here; it's...
Trophy Season
...These incidents, along with J’s gravely serious, rarely smiling face, gave me the impression that J was bad. So when J was on my class list for the improv comedy...
Steal This Article
...property, make them pay for it. Yeah, scan a few items—but don’t scan a few more. Nonchalantly pass your items a bit too high over the scanner and into your...
The Passion of Private Manning
...a happy ending, and it often does—at the movies. Some critical bit of intelligence is a common McGuffin in suspense movies and pulp thrillers. Villains have suppressed some important piece...
Can't Wait Forever
...Rock, currently the site of the largest mobilization of Indigenous North Americans in recent history, to deliver supplies and document events. “The community there is a perfect example of what...
The Dating Game: Compliments, Part III
...whether or not merging is actually your goal in a relationship, the whole "the two will become one flesh" bit is pretty much the basis of marriage in the western...
Grooming Style
A conversation on how the Alt Lit scene’s documentation of sexual violence became a style of supposed sincerity
Precarious Verse
...place, achieving in the execution uncommon complexity and richness. Poetic effect rests on defamiliarization, although not necessarily as a preliminary to alienation but to its overcoming. Just as the speaker...
Mansfield Park is melting in the dark
...he is a bit obtuse about the related class issues.) There is this weird contempt for the whole idea of making a public show of your attention grants; any time...
This Is Not the Deal
...print is already entrenched; if the question of fine print comes up, it’s merely one of reform. As far as primary material is concerned, the problem is exactly the one...
Hackers Gonna Hack
...Microsoft about two years ago and the program was only launched this year… I think it was interesting to them that a complex organization with a lot of moving parts...
0D30
...bit like putting a single good guy Asian-American in the new Red Dawn to demonstrate that the movie isn’t racist: it’s a completely transparent gambit, but it also works. If...
The End of Plastic
...really buys us. DC: That's a bit of an open question, but probably a decent amount. But really, this is an opportunity to think about what should be made of...
Like a Dog
Despite what Shakespeare thought of dogs, they are like heroes who risk betrayal and harm by their own nature.