Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 17
...asking Mr. Gorbachev to put back that wall. They could at least have taken it down slower or even tried dressing it up a bit: Hang some art, give it...
A Detrimental Education
Zaina Alsous talks with Eli Meyerhoff about his book Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World.
Pop at the End
This is what the end of the world sounds like
The Faces of Rimbaud
...The choice is deliberate. Carjat’s photographs are every bit as caricatured as his satirical drawings for the feuilletons; he is not so much interested in capturing the poet’s likeness as...
Glossary
...his pants, and flames licking up his back. He put down the pharmacists, chugged a bottle of pills, yelled “To the commune, dick-licks!”, and bit a sizable chunk of flesh...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 13
...of course, can still think of ourselves. It’s a bit late for our society to go full-monty selflessness, and I’m certainly not suggesting running off to the Peace Corps or...
The Post-Colonial Space Opera
...engagement with semiotics and linguistics bears favorable comparison to Samuel Delany’s classic novel, Babel-17. Both novels concern themselves with how language shapes ontological perspective, thought and culture, thus effecting how...
Variations on a Theme: Forgotten Terrorisms
...The anarchist belief in violent direct action, formulated in the policy of 'propaganda by the deed' (rather than by the word), reflected the particular bitterness of these struggles....
Simple and Plain
...him completely. His friends, no matter how much they loved and respected him, remained a paid entourage whom he could never completely believe actually loved him for real. "He constructed...
Melancholic Damage
...of good-girl resilience: Clarkson comes off as a bit more bruised and experienced, probably because she is older and more seasoned (and, notably, reads somewhat less bourgeois than Swift). Her...
The Eaten World
...up my results online. As a gastroenterology fellow, I hear a fair bit about the microbiome--a term referring to the aggregate genetic material of the microorganisms that colonize our bodies’...
The Art of the Rebuttal: Katherine Dunn
...if you're being fouled, foul in return. Much of the commentary assumes that Tyson often commits fouls and that the bites are merely an extreme version of his usual unsportsmanlike...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Eighteen
...Chaïm Soutine, Still Life with Rayfish. c. 1924. The Met. Back from traveling—several days of not fasting—to menstruation. Not fasting today either. It feels a bit strange to...
Martin Scorsese Started the Fire: Hugo and The Bad Thing
...the Bad Thing is arbitrary and senseless is not beside the point; it is the point. As Event, it signifies “arbitrariness.” And while it’s a clumsy bit of writing –...
Cool Front/
Hot Mess
...costs. No wonder that, in fashion, fronting is traditionally accepted at face value. Even obvious lies, with repetition, are somehow treated as revelatory dissidence, when in fact they are commonplace....
The Mile-Long Club: The Luxury of Eyelashes
...I found myself not “needing” eye makeup on most days, only wearing it to punch things up a bit. Normally I wear eyeliner and mascara every day, largely because it...