This Week in Art Crime
...woke up the entire place was in darkness. It was just a bit eerie, being there all alone. I wandered around for 10 minutes looking for a security guard to...
Against Students
...Complaining, censorious, and over-sensitive, university students are destroying their own institutions. Wait, seriously? People think that? An earlier version of this essay was posted at the blog feministkilljoy What...
Alone Again Or
...bit creepy. He leaves her with a present: a colorful beanie with a visor. But there are no womp womp sound effects; the story closes with, “She had no idea...
Too Foreign
...turning point in the novel: Sousa: “At this moment, now, a doubt overtakes me. God, or whatever You are called: I now ask only one bit of help: but it...
Ramadan Diaries: Analysis
...the idea of Rumi as a historical figure lodged itself into my thoughts. His name is often casually mentioned (a bit too casually) in conversations about mindfulness, or some other...
Centuries in Sorry
Reparations begin in the body
The Future, Probably
...overpriced pieces of space-kitch and fake fur boleros. Yes, the lumpen shop fronts with their weird plaster statues of boots and bangles really did look a bit like they'd been...
Knocked Out Loaded
...to people, unwittingly if not against their will. This is because most who have ingested a standard dosage will exhibit within fifteen minutes a troubling combination of physical docility and...
Class Consciousness for American Doctors
Professionalism is the ideological terrain on which medicine’s culture interacts with its class politics
Helen Gurley Brown, 1922-2012
...something one should respect; when it comes to self-presentation, shouldn’t authenticity trump strain, ease trump effort? Sometimes, sure. But I’m certain I’m not the only woman who would find it...
The Real Beach Lives of Miami
...religiously since 1986, have diligently and gleefully attempted to make into a rite of passage for American children. If anyone is complicit in the rape culture of spring break, it’s...
M and A
...gestures downwards) will start (he gestures upwards). He plays with the gesture a little until it turns into a little bit of a dance. He watches his arm happily. Gets...
Sunday Reading
...started a new book, Pomegranate Soup. I wrote it in 6 weeks flat—I just constantly wrote, and ate!" "A rabbit can travel quite comfortably in a car, but you will...
The Space NDN's Star Map
...come naturally to the space NDN. The all-pervasive “force” or similarly the super brain connecting all beings. The animism and agency of cyborgs, AI systems, and other non-human people. Alternate...
Our Man in Great Neck
...him in the USSR. It helped him actually. He was absolutely fearless. He was the impetus that propelled us on because I was a little bit concerned. And he said...
“What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records”
...that its net effect on them was only that of a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary on the inner lives of men and women. Ulysses doesn't excite our mirror...