A Black Jack
...bit of underwater maneuvering, Chaplin and Kendel avoid the worst of the missile attack and realize they are now likely personas-non-grata in the US. (Meanwhile, another sub has followed protocol,...
Double header
...shooter film, do have a bit in common. As a further application of this principle, Snow White & The Huntsman here shares double billing with its unofficial prequel, WET PAINT,...
New World Anxiety
...uses us without relief. Our subjugated presence has been a primary economic security for the empire. Anti-Black violence has been mined for every bit of its worth to build the...
Against the Normative World
...starts riffing: breath, prayer, the communal, the possible, beauty, collective desire. Can you riff on it for us a little? The best way I can think to reply to this...
California
...heavily invested in how the state appears, its lucrative fantasy coming to dominate and determine conditions on the ground. But the best real estate scams are the ones that work...
Let Loose the Dogs of Love
...first piece in this digital trilogy, for Bookslut. I complimented you on how connected your books are. They are all obviously in conversation with one another, even when their form...
Thinking bad
...makes reading the book feel very much like a return to a 1990s zeitgeist. This jars a bit with the Internet-driven content he's dealing with. The approach feels out of...
The Princess and the Brain
...Beheld. But by coming to this story as late as I have, the required reading is now beyond daunting. There are now not only Mantel's own well-regarded books, the speech,...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.29.12
...products, but even I'm skeptical of Hello Kitty collagen marshmallows. A girl thing: In an effort to dispel notions about women in science, the European Commission put out a music...
All Presidents
...a constitutional order to preserve freedom for future generations – a commitment to democracy and rule of law ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step...
Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
...Harris. Malcolm Harris: Your methodology is interesting—including as co-producers the subjects you’re writing about. Can you tell me a bit about how that works and why you choose to do...
Real Inauthentic Like
...a really neat trick. But let me back up a little bit. Smith's incredible first novel, White Teeth, very much partakes in straight-up lyrical realism, what she calls the “Balzac-Flaubert”...
Sometimes a Suitcase is Just a Suitcase: On Pede Hollist's "Foreign Aid"
...on the long side, close to 10,000 words, the upper limit on the Caine Prize. When Kola complained, mildly, that “nothing explains the length of this work,” that’s what he...
The American Studies Association Goes to Politics
...opinions about the American Studies Association, you should come to terms with the “New American Studies” which began (more or less) in the early nineties—as an insurgent effort to change...
The Benevolence of the Butcher
...top the previous year's effort. "In the evening we go down and eat liverwurst and bread, a most toothsome combination. The company was hilarious; I feared some one would fall...
Curls and the Patriarchy
...at least a bit, for I went back and watched part of the town hall debate to accurately report on what I myself saw in Crowley, and here it is:...