The Lonely Ones
...later), tried to puzzle out something that seems to have confused Sontag, and is genuinely confusing: the relationship between solitude and romantic love. In Gornick’s 1978 collection, Essays on Feminism,...
Survival in Audre Lorde
...In my practice in Poetry I have tried to produce a grammar in which Black existence might be the thought and not the unthought; might be. —Dionne Brand, “An...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...an enormous, prop comedy cordless telephone. And it feels like one, slightly pebbled, integral. But it cannot be looked through. There are no round places to stick your eyes in...
This Week in Art Crime
...Mr Shannon told the police after his arrest he committed the thoughtless act of vandalism in an attempt to ‘get back at the state’ however while in court he tried...
Lies and Videotape
...you’ll feel like we tried napalm out on you, at your expense. We can only give you a hint of an idea of how napalm works. In both films, the...
Just Friends
...the way creative technological disruption, in the form of social media, has tried to make friendship just another platform for self-fashioning consumption. There could be another side to this antagonism....
The Fame Game
...against moderators, other users, my family. So we tried to pre-screen the secrets, where every secret submitted had to be looked at by a moderator before it could be shared,...
Manet in Tunisia
...student protests against the increasingly authoritative regime of President Habib Bourguiba, who, since independence from France in 1956, tried to create a secular state based on philosophical ideas he learned...
Needles and the Damage Done
...went off to college, I tried to erase all trace of my small-town upbringing. I thought about Needles as little as possible, and only went back for brief visits at...
This Week in Art Crime
...the man put up quite a fight, injuring two officers while they tried to arrest him, with Detective Inspector Brendon Cullen saying one officer suffered a shoulder injury. (via) •...
Interview: Sister Nancy Ruth, Life-Professed Member of the Order of St. Andrew, Hudson Valley, New York
...to be who I am. I’m not sure if I’ve ever consciously tried to feel sexy. I’ve experimented a little bit more now that I’ve lost some weight; I’ve experimented...
Circle Circle Dot Dot
...hell? I thought to myself. I tried to laugh it off and went over to another kid. And before I could extend my hand, the same girl interjected— “Don’t touch...
The Jimmy McNulty Gambit: Mike Daisey and the Thickening Crust of Our Awareness
...fails, of course, but that’s not the important thing; the important thing is why he even tried. After all, Jimmy McNulty’s problem is not only that he’s an unscrupulous narcissist,...
Flag-waving And Drowning: On The New Branding Policy Of UKaid
...effects of migration and political struggle. But development officials would be laughed out of their meetings if they actually tried to run a line about the positive legacies of colonialism....
Stories of Our Lives: Suicide
...was. Three times I tried to take my life, but it never worked. How does one listen for the queer children who do not make it? How does one narrate...
Dances With Anarchists
...Goldman’s father beat her with a whip. She battled with authority at the school, too, denied a character reference needed to continue her education. One teacher’s report called the twelve-year-old...