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”...
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...
“Other Trans People Make Me Dysphoric”: Trans Assimilation and Cringe
When the right deploys cringe to control trans assimilation, trans people cringe at each other.
Teenage Screams
...bite at the hand that feeds. Though Coppola abandoned acting decades ago, that image of her seems etched onto the public’s retinas—44, yet forever the beloved only daughter, the indulged...
The Fight and the Whale
...dichotomy. Maron might blur those lines a bit by talking about his own personal experiences and beefs with the guest, but the aim of the show is mainly for guests...
You're Not Pretty Enough
...the argument with her then-husband that the book's title comes from—uttered unbelievably (except totally believably) in the midst of discussions about his inattentiveness and infidelity—prettiness doesn't make much of a...
Birds of a Ledger
...reviews within birdwatching circles. It’s certainly a worthy companion to other raptor guides, perhaps a bit less immediately useful as an instruction manual than is Hawks in Flight, but it’s...
Thoughts on a Word: Glamour (Part I)
...a performance if you wish. It’s equally accurate to call it an accomplishment. In 1939, glamour—rather, Glamour—took on an additional definition. In 1932, publishing company Condé Nast launched a new...
Post-coloniality Sells
...hand, readers pick on them quite effortlessly. Maybe it’s better not to be aware, though! For me, the comparison with Achebe is interesting because you’re doing something different. For example,...
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...
What Was the Child?
Childhood as we currently understand it emerged with 20th century capitalism, but as the distinction between labor and leisure is breaking down, so too is the concept of childhood
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,...
Sunday Reading
...in Montreal Does Justin Trudeau really care about reconciliation? Kerim Friedman: US Army committed $6.5 trillion in accounting fraud in one year State Misogyny: France’s Colonial Unveiling History Against Muslim...
Everything resembles the truth
...a Stereohell online information and service system. To browse SRNET or join, set your modem to 22 data bits, 1 stop bit and...
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...
Loving Franko B
...share and explain why this inspires you... IT IS MOST DEFINITELY NOT obvious to me in the least bit... I don’t think he got Franko B. I certainly don’t think...