No Place Like Home
Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know
Blind Ambition
...assisted lost strangers and contrived clever board games to play with the town's other blind residents. Music enchanted him. He attended concerts and joined music societies. Often ringing through the...
Toward a Reading of Post-Kanye Hip-Hop
...novelty,” then they aren’t people who could threaten her artistic credibility; they are people who overtly don’t give a damn about music. Haters no longer police the essence of a...
Fringe Feminists
...Creem Magazine, February 1976: Patti's heroes may be gone, but she is both with us and for us, so strongly that her music is something, finally, to rally around....
Our Fellow Travelers
...entire screen with all the gestures and grace of a sweaty black club. At times, especially during the genius pajama-party scene, when that paleo-twerk classic of D.C. go-go music, “Da...
If You Are Lucky Enough To Be In LA...
...and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. But more recently, defying artistic boundaries, Genesis has re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits...
Sunday Reading
...meet my fellow protesters, I hear people emerge from their balconies and the music starts. If you do not live here, I wish I could properly convey to you what...
“What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records”
...for her answer. “Libby?” he called again. By that time he realized he could not even hear the sound of his own voice above the music coming from the radio....
Inquiring Minds
...the child of infancy and the person forming at five, that is a vast difference. Are the profoundest reaches of the imagination beyond language? R: Yes. See: music. M: yes....
The Pitfalls of Indie Fame
...sophisticated interpretation of primitive music, vaguely akin to Nick Hornby (but less funny and with more looping). 4. I have no idea what these stories are supposed to be about....
A Summer Fête: The New Inquiry's First Annual Summer Benefit
...invite you to our first annual summer benefit, for hors d'oeuvres, music and an open bar to enjoy the sunset on the Sackett Farms balcony. The event will feature music...
Cookie Cutters
...temporary employment, rented houses, longer work lives, failed states, and consumer culture. Perhaps consent is no longer available for purchase; maybe we can now only— from time to time—subscribe....
Weed
...far behind, Andrew Beccone of the Reanimation Library digs into the archive for the hippies, scientists, and peddlers of moral panic of 20th century weed culture. In the reviews section,...
Boy Problems
Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.
The Alienation of Mary Kay
...the gap between what a buyer is promised with a beauty product and what she actually receives; the gap our culture has created between being the smart girl and the...
Adding Up: Phyllis Rosser and the Gender Politics of Standardized Math Tests
...standardized testing and American culture and the Social Media Editor for Lady Science. Lady Science is an independent magazine that focuses on the history of women and gender in science,...