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...
On Pageantry, the Virgin Mary, and the Smart Girl
...questioning the existence of a god of any gender. My father was a bit more enthusiastic, going so far as to teach Sunday school, but even at 7 years old...
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...
I Decide the End
An interview with Elaine Kahn about her new book of poems, Romance or The End
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...
Mom-Poet
A conversation with poet and mom Montana Ray about sexism in the poetry scene
Ethel Mairet: A Pioneer of Weaving Technology
...mineralogical survey and where Ethel Mariet would find her passion for weaving. Art from overseas played a role in trends in London as objects from Japan, India, and Persia were...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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