Downward-Facing Drones
...to a faith in asana. All these news stories point to the same truth: In the U.S., yoga often begets a toxic culture that encourages, if not outright rewards, dangerously...
Red Light Green Light
...where I teach. You can still say “those kindergarteners” to anyone who was there at the time and they’ll know exactly who you’re talking about. It feels both factually and...
School's Out Forever
...others.” Classrooms, tellingly, are usually depicted in popular culture as excruciatingly boring. Teachers post Calvin and Hobbes cartoons about the soul-crushing banality of compulsory attendance on the classroom walls. In...
I Decide the End
An interview with Elaine Kahn about her new book of poems, Romance or The End
Mom-Poet
A conversation with poet and mom Montana Ray about sexism in the poetry scene
Sunday Reading
...crisis of the commons Inside Bill Clinton's nearly $18 million job as "honorary chancellor" of a for-profit college Cashing in on the culture wars "[A]fter LSU football suffered an upset...
Discipline and Pleasure
...Is addiction a deeper form of distraction or a desperate escape from it? What the video game Dota 2 can teach us DEPRESSION and addiction are hard to distinguish...
Future Islands
...science fiction. Japan-centered science fiction like Gibson’s tends to champion the exceptional, technologically realized individual: “console cowboys” who, by sheer dint of their idiosyncratic brilliance, can move nations. In contrast,...
The Contagious Assembly
A new book identifies the law of the household as the center of the current order
Miyoko Hikiji, Soldier, Author, and Model, Iowa
...bother me or gross me out. My great-grandmother was born in Japan, and my grandmother and my father were born and raised in Kauai. Being part Japanese adds another element...
Beauty Blogosphere 2.8.13
...be worthy in its own right—as it is for Muslim women. We live in a culture that's pretty confused about women's bodies, surveillance, "responsibility," the gaze, and sexuality. Wearing hijab...
Do Nothing, Be Nothing
...and what many expect will stand as his magnum opus. Published in Japan in three installments beginning in 2009, the novel was released in North America in a single volume...
Hosed: Conservatism and the Return of Pantyhose
...the freedom to shed it—and were likely raising their daughters with the knowledge that nylons were no longer a must. (And in Japan, where pantyhose sales are growing as well,...
Sunday Reading
...A bilingual guide for LGBT disaster preparedness in Japan Clinton and the teachers' unions Antisemitism at the DNC How Republicans Tried to Flip the Jewish Vote and Created Donald Trump...
This Week in Art Crime
...and the reporters, with their notepads and video cameras at the ready, tried to get a more linear response, the resulting give-and-take was a piece of performance art in itself....
Healing History
...Bad Statistics on Women in Medicine (The Wall Street Journal) Women’s Participation in the Medical Profession: Insights from Experiences in Japan, Scandinavia, Russia, and Eastern Europe (Journal of Women’s Health,...