First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
...epic’s prodigious sway over the popular Hindu culture and its unique relationship to history has made this possible. In the West, one encounters the epic as a literary genre that...
Nia in Two Acts
A year after her murder, reflecting on Nia Wilson reveals the ways black girls struggle against erasure while also reveling in opacity
Beauty Blogosphere 10.12.12
...Dunham tried on the tap pants trend, the world stopped, and her response to her critics is nothing short of fantastic. "I don’t think a girl with tiny thighs would...
The Worst Hair Dryer in the World
...take at least six more weeks, because I'm lazy about the stupidest things—it got me thinking about how people might've tried to commodify hair before blow-dryers were around. (The first...
Footnote Fairy Tale
...by our determination and our strength. They tried to crush us over and over again, but we wouldn’t be crushed.” He runs through the crimes of the Stalinist era, which...
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...
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...
London (Poverty)
Referencing the history of high-end design magazines, Thatcherism, and London’s financialized housing market, Guo looks at the historical conditions which produced her current “world of interiors.”
Forced into the Fringe: Margaret Murray’s Witch-Cult Hypothesis
...By Kathleen Sheppard Margaret Murray was an Egyptologist at University College, London from 1894 to 1935. She spent much of her career managing administrative and teaching duties in the...
The Sweet Smell of Sexcess
...much about the products on an individual, something about seeing all of them grouped together on the page vaguely unsettled me. I tried articulating this to a friend, who then...
A Connecting Thing
...religions, books and song. What if Parisians would see? What if U.S. Americans saw after Nine Eleven? Shunned their cowboy and sinister senators? Read and investigated, instead? Tried the guilty...
Can't Wait Forever
...and said they were sorry. They tried to justify what they did. They gave me cold water. They asked me if I wanted food. But this is just one example,...
Beauty Blogosphere Summer Solstice
...tried yet—nay, products in general!—but when the goodie in question is a nail polish named after one of her favorite beauty bloggers, The Reluctant Femme, it's totally principled, right? Or...
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...
Commuter Riots
...NFL commissioner, Paul Tagliabue, tried to replicate bucolic Sunday tailgate services at Arrowhead across the league, fueling a few fiery championship street riots in the process. A couple years after...
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...