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...
Psychology's One and Only Thesis
...which are invisibly etched all the tendencies of human behavior. When it comes time for him to write a novel, imagine him holding that crystal up to one eye and...
Hangar to Grave
...and fairly successful life in commercial service, the DC-9 now finds itself outmoded by newer and more efficient aircraft. Still, the DC-9 is not quite history. Just last year, it...
Everything in Its Place
...devoid of baggage, of emotional connection and sentimental attachments, a life committed entirely and passionately to purging. The high point of her existence, and anyone's, is the "tidying festival," a...
The Difference between Chéri and Eternity
...an account book, naked near the fountain, naked in Lea’s brass-laden bed. Chéri is naked wearing Lea’s pearl choker: “It looks every bit as good on me as it does...
So French
...The eternally moisturized Frenchwoman. (By loki11, via Wikimedia Commons) The Frenchwoman's beauty routine. (Because there's just the one woman - rich, Parisian, works in fashion - and...
Toward a Reading of Post-Kanye Hip-Hop
...The particularity of swagger’s performance lies in its combination of material signifiers of wealth, particularly designer-brand clothing or jewelry, with bodily gestures or attitudes of defiance, as in the strut...
It's Hip to Eat Mare
...Sometimes you could get a ton of meat from one Percheron [a type of horse]! Replaced by tractors, cars, and other mechanical devices, laboring horses have been rendered completely useless,...
CHAT ROOM: Activist Microcelebrities
...attention economy. rob: This strays from the paper’s parameters a bit, but the point of engaging in activism can be to escape the constraints of "attention," and its scarcity, into...
Lying Like Cuttlefish
...one another. Against these fantasies, we must learn how to comport ourselves anew, to squirm for a bit in an effort to fight for a life lived in common....
Hillbilly Ethnography
...his readers will not see class through “a racial prism,” but quickly goes on to say: “There is undoubtedly an ethnic component lurking in the background of my story.” Hillbillies,...
The Quiet Life
...efforts of its narrator. He is also named Jesse Ball, though he refers to himself throughout the manuscript as Int., for Interviewer. He has come to a village in Japan’s...
Comfortably Worn: Review of "The Worn Archive"
...often means is this: What hopelessly simple, tidy, boiled-down bit of wisdom/advice/how-to/glimmer of worldview can we offer readers? I'd like to think that's changing, and certainly some magazines are more...