History Made Queasy
...verse 21 (29 BC) his cook tried to coax him to greater indulgence by preparing his favorite dishes. The cook knew Lee had a weakness for "old Virginia flapjacks ......
Witnessing Patriarchy
...fellow students were young, they tried to kill the father: Marxists all, they found Cheik Anta Diop’s work inadequate, ill-conceived, something to be cast off. Today, he reflected, decades after...
Summer Heat
...that Beverly Lee was actually a boy. On the day after Beverly Lee was shot, the Detroit News reported on the incident: Shot in the back as he tried to...
They Were Like Us & We Were Like Them
...drawn less to Roman’s crimes than to his self-fictionalizing. What did the man do all day? How could he prefer to kill everyone he loved rather than come clean about...
Get Your Strike On
...y vístanse de rojo como un lazo rojo o ropa de color roja Manifiéstate en contra de los roles de géneros • Contact/Contactenos en: [email protected] [email protected] womenstrikeus.org @womenstrikeus facebook.com/womenstrikenyc/...
Thoughts on a Word: Glamour (Part II)
...on living at LuxLotus.com. Glamour is the word, pertaining to me, that I hear most often from other people, and, in truth, the word I think of least on...
"Spaces where identity stutters and goes silent”
...a Hitchcock movie. I could practically hear the music as Freddy walked out of the frame. But the second death was what tripped me up. I didn’t figure it out...
Bad News
...own subject position than anything else. Specifically, it reveals an affiliation with the white bourgeois culture given an unexpected glimpse of its own fragility by the economic shocks of the...
Technicolor Tehran
...the early 1980s, graphic representations still retain cultural specificity. The all-purpose term visual culture can flatten the differences between what pixacão on buildings in São Paulo signifies versus the constant...
Boom and Rust
...his classic California: A History, Kevin Starr wrote, “In just about every way possible—its internationalism, its psychology of expectation, its artistic and literary culture, its racism, its heedless damage to...
Alphabet of an Unknown City (N-Z)
...sion: to calm an inner world (“she tried to compose herself”), artistic ren- dition (“to compose and draw a still life”), and construction or placement (“the system is composed of...
Sick
...with the knowledge that you have tried to kill yourself, as Natasha Lennard writes in “On Suicide.” Questions of intent are necessarily hazy in this act, which confounds the subject-object...
The Unproven Body
...and others near you, where they disrupt no one but yourself and these others near you. I tried to move around my home the way I had the day before....
Daddy O
...my favorite obscure band, and the smiles I get (nearly all from men over fifty) feel like the knowing glances exchanged by two music nerds passing in the street. Joe...
City Hunger
...pass that the wind would make her clothes flutter and uncover her legs that seemed to be made of scarlet, milk and music all mixed together”—but he is awake to...
Arguing the Web
...Music: Siriusmo, "Einmal in der Woche schreien" (Monkeytown Records) Vol. 3 of TNI Magazine: Arguing the Web is being sent out to subscribers today. If you're a subscriber,...