Ranked Amateurs
...worst season. It’s a famously, perhaps unintentionally comedic scene, one which displays Nolte’s gift for brusque, mildly terrifying haranguing that he also put to startling effect in his other great...
Anti-Anti-Parasitism
...recognize that parasites—humans and non-humans alike—feed not off of individuals but off of relationships. They interrupt the connections between an individual and his food source, between communities, between an organism...
Teju Cole's Afrolicious Playlist
...One of our favorite writers and producer of far and away the best Twitter feed we've seen, novelist Teju Cole (@TejuCole) has been curating and tweeting incredible 'top-ten' playlists...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of October 13, 2019)
...Piggin' out. New law empowers Maine schools to feed uneaten school-lunch fare to farm hogs Fast-food fulfillment centers? Familiar chains have begun opening "ghost kitchens" dedicated exclusively to deliveries ordered...
Appetites
...have forgotten how to feed themselves. Malcolm Harris’s review treats the novel as a parable of how capitalist intermediation of the social process of feeding one another has broken the...
Together We Are None
...also able to stay behind and keep watching through a video feed. There’s a poetic sort of stress about where to go for the authentic experience. Early on, I was...
Animal Citizens, Animal Workers
Animals require a politics of labor
The Day After Yesterday, Part 2: The Gathering Storm
...ahead and Tom, I swear, if you so much as start to utter the word “composition of the visual plane” one more time, I will feed you to my dogs,...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.26.13
...my feed is full of feministy fashion types and I'm one myself) often hear the idea that fashion needs to be more realistic—and a fashion illustrator who makes her trade...
Don DeLillo Did 9/11
...II his protagonist — a reclusive novelist — gives voice to fear that the medium is going out of fashion: The novel used to feed our search for meaning…. But...
Work Appropriate
...voice is one I look forward to seeing pop up in my blog feed. She's also written for The Closet Feminist, Lacquerheads of Oz, and The Peach. When I learned...
The Magnetic North
...so happens we decide that seeking them from “legitimate” authorities is normative. It’s as though the psychics were providing a live feed, a form of surveillance. Traversing such long...
Death and Life in Great American Cities
To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond
Sunday Reading
...making feminist points Maasai women on Mindy Bugdor's warrior princess online cult of the angry man why was a major art survey 91% male? don't feed the trolls AKA silence...
Nairobi in the Age of the World Target
...I speak, but neither was Westgate a space I ever felt comfortable in, probably because of its calculated efforts to reassure a clientele that looked and spent like me. Like...
The Things We Do
...and feed her. Then, with the boy properly swathed in backcloth, she carried him home and presented him to Luzze. Oh, the celebrations. The jubilation. They went on for weeks...