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...
An assortment
...have different hair-care requirements. There's a bit more specificity in the article than the headline, although it isn't clear why these various hair textures must be assembled in one column....
More Could Have Happened With That Subplot
...happen with father jack. thank you, yes i will let you know if other questions come up you mean this as title? Totally, that was a bit snarky but also...
Centuries in Sorry
Reparations begin in the body
Sunday Reading
...“Decolonize your tortilla!” “Every person who lives outside his context is always a bit of a ghost, because I am here, but at the same time I remember a person...
The Hair Back There
...to those of you who don't use their long hair as a built-in neck warmer during the winter—is coming, and in an effort to make sure my hairstyling skills wouldn't...
Girl Talk
...said what we both knew you’re supposed to say upon receiving a compliment, the words that, with luck and effort, could lead to chatter of other cross-weather shoes, which could...
A Guy Named Frank
...to get him the other 20 bucks next week if only he’ll just front them a bit, or on the chicks who offer sex in exchange for a couple grams....
Climate Changed
...erupted in July 1914. Her earlier date is linked most commonly to 1910’s London art exhibit “Manet and the Post-Impressionists,” which introduced Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Picasso to the stodgy...
"Let Loose Your Tongue"
...had just published. I was interested in writing about the revolution, and this seemed different stylistically from most of the other literature that was coming out at the time. Plus,...
The Madman's Interpreters
...bit more effort, but is very, very rewarding in the end. TNI: André Breton considered Roussel and the Comte de Lautréamont to be the forerunners of surrealism. As someone who...
The Last Witch Hunter
...be compared to a barbaric episode of its past that it had largely forgotten. Summers, on the other hand, neither criticized nor apologized for Christianity’s persecution of witches—he embraced it....
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...
Burial Ground Acknowledgements
Land acknowledgments as acts of institutional inclusion obscure the antagonism that follows from genocide
Portrait of the Artist as a Rookie Cop
...the relief this seclusion brings the officers is inverse to their connection to the community. The more they are merely foreign occupiers, the more they enjoy the view, a view...