The Invented Persians
...mocking his death): As they tried to arrest more and more people the group of strong and defiant Palestinian women we were with threw their bodies over the men they...
Making It: A Miseducation
...day that one teacher, Dr. Bond—a fiery preacher known in our school for his flamboyant suits, hallway hemlocks, and constant command for us to “pull up our pants”—asked me a...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...in mind that although she tried to dress and dance like poor Afro-Brasileras, as a white woman she never would have had to carry a fruit basket on her head....
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...
Ordinary Boredom
...display are the postcards Shore had made, a series called Tall in Texas, featuring more or less generic locales in Amarillo. Apparently he tried to sell these commercially and reportedly...
Volume 30
...acceleration and its discontents, reactionary messaging in mass culture, the art and publishing world and their rituals, love as a problem, surveillance and affect, apps and neoliberalism. Essentially: how can...
Routine Repairs & Earth & Dust
...tried to slit her wrists is still resting, her painter husband’s mother now taking care of their 2 young children. This is that old N.Y. dread—the frenetic running, the bleak...
Les Trahisons des Clercs
...procedures of prediction another. The Italian criminologist, Cesare Lombroso, forwarded the idea that criminals may be distinguished by certain shared physiognomic traits. Francis Galton tried to define these traits by...
Values, Stereotypes, and Big Feelings: Compliments, Part II
...recognize that it has value. Otherwise, the compliment isn’t complete.) The consequence here is that compliments can tell us a good deal about what we as a culture actually value....
Money, Sex and Tweens
...what you want. Or perhaps expand what you want. JC: Not me. I found it really calcified my interests. I imagine that I tried different things for about six months...
Osmic Frequencies
...toluene-like” and with a stronger bitter almond character than normal acetophenone. A 2004 study published in Nature Neuroscience tried to refute this claim. The Rockefeller olfactory neurogeneticists Andreas Keller and...
Occupy A Bank
...to start sitting down inside those banks. #OccupyLA has already tried this, and members got arrested after trying to cash a $673 billion dollar check to “the people of California.”...
The Real Image
...that I, too, was gaining access to more of my brain than ordinary mortals could, and that if I tried, I could destroy objects with the power of my mind....
Lucky Number Seven
...off as thoughtful and kind — it’s clear that he wants to use his good fortune to help others — and lives out his commitment to social justice by teaching...
May Day 2012
...officials have tried to control the student movement. Mainstream Québec media – and by extension the majority of Canadian media that pick up from these sources – have insisted on...
Kenya's Security Act: Citizen Reporting
...finding out the truth in Kenya and trying to hold the state accountable. Key Changes in the Security Bill Kenya’s mainstream media has tried to argue that the Security Act...