Minor Cords
...struggled to catch up academically. I signed my own absence notes, talked frankly with teachers about my academic performance during parent-teacher conferences and tried my best to understand the importance...
How Ought We Die?
...in the future? We need a new script for talking about impending death, a guide to teach the population how to prepare for it and how to support one another...
On Being a Fat Child
...healthfully and mindfully, exercise aplenty, and remain fat. But that wasn’t me. Had I eaten the way my parents tried to teach me to eat, and not been so terrified...
Digital Runways, Paper Dolls
...in the U.S., Britain, Japan, Germany, and France combined by 2020. While China remains a poor country with an average annual per capita consumption of $2,500 (the U.S. per capita...
Going LeBron
...a cubicle. College did not teach me how to make small talk at the water cooler. Even the most prosaic and boring freshman-year lectures did not come close to mimicking...
An A B C of Puerility: Anderson, Britten, Crane
...when you think about it, written a great deal for children—both child audiences and child performers. He's especially known as a composer of liturgical music in a tradition famous for...
Victory and Its Consequences (Part I)
...other contemporary movements. This could certainly be attributed to the opacity gained by controlling the territory and a relatively widespread culture of anonymity. Yet these factors alone could not have...
No Epiphanies Whatsoever
...the example – of what happens when capitalism catches up with you. She is also, however, the girl who keeps outpacing capitalism, moving from magazine to online culture. While the...
Digressions of an Opium-Eater
...new fluidity of culture and experience for the street’s denizens. That Dimple finds her encounter with the artist as confusing and traumatic as eye-opening and exciting hints at the coming...
Sunday Reading
...bookselling on Baghdad's Mutanabbi Street How heritage is created by destruction in Bahrain Screen portrayals of the fictional Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi Hindustani music in colonial Bombay Western classical music...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.10.12
...and mainstream beauty culture: "The study claims that beautiful people make more money than not beautiful people, but last time I checked, dykes still make less than cis-men." The larger...
Social Media, Social Factory
...leftover from the competitive workplace-brainstorming sessions, the status-hierarchy battles, the arguments over what music and which movies are great, the experience of checking Facebook and feeling outclassed by what your...
Late Night Is All We Have
A diary from two days in Dallas
Kindergarten/Cops
...knowing how awful it feels to be laughed at when you tell somebody what to do. I teach comedy and I have reprimanded kids for laughing at something I’ve done....
Privacy for Whom?
Two new books show that for the poor, privacy has never been on offer
Vagina Analogues
...for being who we are. Like vibrators, drones will inevitably proliferate far beyond the clinical confines of their original use. The devices of warmaking have already bled into amusement culture,...