Rhetoric and Tone: A Debate
...he has never even tried. I believe it is utterly childish to deflect that obvious journalistic/professional transgression with so cartoonish and incendiary an analogy and in calling it out as...
Revolutionary Laughter
...novel almost every decade. He was friends with Albert Camus, Lawrence Durrell and Jean Genet and, although he wrote almost exclusively about Egypt, was firmly ensconced in Left Bank culture,...
Data Streams
...the Intercept. It’s a single frame of scrambled video imagery, and I tried to connect that with some of the metaphors that the analysts themselves use to describe the job...
This Week in Art Crime
...I am the guy responsible for the exhibition, that we have brought shame on the Ukraine people. I tried to explain that we show also the killed [Euromaidan] protesters, but...
A Woman Under the Influence
Mary MacLane's spectacular moods first fueled, then failed her
Demolition Party
...economic stimulus of consumer culture to urbanization; these shiny new cities that are going up across the country today are like new refrigerators which are designed to break down after...
Death by Twitter
...the writing of Flaubert, Gide, Camus, Le Clézio and Barthes. In Francophone literature, it crossed the line from low to high culture. But though a version of it was present...
Gamifying Beauty
...few errant sounds—but it couldn’t compare to the afternoon I spent teaching myself to play “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on ukelele.) Enter beauty apps, which mimic acts that fall somewhere...
The Selfless Man
...Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) by teaching him the art of the pickup, training him to dress fashionably, drink like an alpha male, and make woman-pleasing small talk. “Be better than...
Achilles 2.0
...his former comrade-in-arms Tihomir Blaskic, who was tried for war crimes at The Hague: …I thought about what I would have said if they had questioned me, how I would...
While I Was Away
...a year ago, I tried to return to romance novels written in the 1970s and early 1980s, and I couldn't. They were full of rape. It was a vernacular. I...
Permanent Display
...autonomy, does it reflect also on privacy? I tried to introduce a certain questioning into public space. By working on people’s gaze with the practice of “hijabizing” in the subway,...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.20.12
...at the end of the day, I "talk like a girl," and I see no reason to reconfigure. In fact, when I've tried to reconfigure and not be so damned...
Noshing with Nomads
...even though it will mean lugging some sixty cartons of them through high summer’s swelter. I tried in the past to break myself of this packrat-ish impulse, lest it end...
Escape
...those of us still on the run.” After escape, there is the work of living past the shores of a different world we have tried so hard to find....
Adventures in the Cash Nexus
...distort family values.” She writes as if those family values — the same ones that have emerged from patriarchal culture and skewed emotional labor along gender lines — reflect eternal...