Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 25
...you might accept the need for some guidance but question taking it from me. That is a fair point—more than fair. I have given quite a bit of bad advice...
Marginal Returns
...to build feel, in our overly networked, no-brow, postmodernist society, a bit baroque. Still, what else was a black intellectual to do? What would I have done? Even hindsight, in...
Snake Plissken's Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
...up thing is the thought that someone probably did. My comments regarding the auto-betrayal of the human remain.) If you were my friend or even a stranger, who spotted me...
Super Position
...remarked that comic book stories already operate a little bit like dreams: the same plot is repeated, obsessive-compulsively, over and over; nothing changes; and even as the backdrop for the...
You bring the goat, I'll find the paw-paw tree
...the digestion, and even if you just hang a tough fowl or a bit of goat in the tree among the leaves, it gets tender in no time, for there...
History of Dialogue: Tamil Stories
...Tamils in the North, and in effect to destroy the Tamils in the area as an ethnic grouping. Rohini: I interviewed a senior army commander, who retired, he was waiting...
The Souls of Ivy Folk
...People be released in the same world where, as its protagonist Sam puts it, “Big Momma’s House 3 exists.” And it might seem a bit hyperbolic, but I’ll write it...
You and Mark Aren't Friends
...company, a PR construct, just like Andy Sparks. But the effacing work that goes into that, well, that is something. There is another Mark Zuckerberg out there who must be...
St. Paul (A Screenplay)
...most zealous of the most zealous promoters of the traditions?’ ‘And aren’t the traditions for him authority and hate, racism and discrimination?’ Bit by bit the murmurings of the assembly...
Cool Women
When the apparently hard-edged rejection of identity betrays a hidden sentimentalism
Rome, 1974
...enough to not cling to his thigh, the pocket yawned a bit and I bet it was slippery enough even in the heat to not seek comfort from my small...
Snake Plissken’s Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.
Milton Friedman’s Pencil
...from some mines in South America. This red top up here, this eraser, a bit of rubber, probably comes from Malaya, where the rubber tree isn’t even native! It was...
Redistribution and World Building
A conversation with K Agbebiyi, creator of the Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund
Best in Show
...little vixens, unless we’re heifers or, well, dogs—suddenly it doesn’t seem terrifically far-fetched to wonder if there’s a bit of relief in establishing oneself as the mistress of another who...
Laurie Penny's "Unspeakable Things"
...of what face of feminism is likely to be beamed onto the main stage. And it might even make you a little bit testy at the ways you’ve been complicit...