Particular Universals
...to be a bit of a hindrance anyway, as it can muddy the waters in terms of what we’re advocating for. As Nina Power wrote recently: “What is the relationship...
Feminism, Fascism, and Frogs: The Case of Bertha Lutz at the United Nations
...were rare in Brazil—and across the globe. Lutz’s feminist and scientific agenda were intricately interconnected . When Lutz wrote Thirteen Principles in 1933—a feminist guide for the committee that was...
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 Benevolence of the Butcher
...top the previous year's effort. "In the evening we go down and eat liverwurst and bread, a most toothsome combination. The company was hilarious; I feared some one would fall...
Sometimes a Suitcase is Just a Suitcase: On Pede Hollist's "Foreign Aid"
...on the long side, close to 10,000 words, the upper limit on the Caine Prize. When Kola complained, mildly, that “nothing explains the length of this work,” that’s what he...
Curls and the Patriarchy
...at least a bit, for I went back and watched part of the town hall debate to accurately report on what I myself saw in Crowley, and here it is:...
Little Boxes on a Hillside
...they’ve enabled. Suburbs disenfranchise people who can’t drive, like children, the elderly, and those who can’t afford a car. People who can drive often face long commutes to work, and...
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...
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 Unfuckables
...before. —"Take a Girl Like You," Kingsley Amis I love to play strippers and to imitate them. I love using that idea for comedy, but the idea of actually going...
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...
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...
Feinting Spells
...“magical realism” came into vogue in the late 60s and 70s, when the West’s monopoly on the literary started facing serious competition, around the time a Colombian writer named Gabriel...
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’...
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...
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...