Vol. 19 Editors' Note: "Art"
...development in culture and society, posing new questions—or, let’s face it, the same old questions—as to where the work resides and how we should look at it. Parker Ito’s America...
War Comes Home for Dinner
...of a culture of its own, for now it still takes us out of the ones we belong to. Sharing recipes, cooking meals with family, meeting friends at a favorite...
Arguing the Web (3): Post-Text
...culture of self-centered, distracted readers who forgot the MLA guidelines for correct citation. The real interest lies in criticism about the growing culture of subjectivity that puts feelings before facts,...
Sunday Reading
...associated with their gang moniker? It will be located within their cellular phones." Trayvon Martin, a victim in the NRA's culture war A Miracle in Colonel Sanders' Colon Jazz and...
The Unfuckables
...possible for the hissing girls to cloak it in something political. Something about ‘beauty standards,’ maybe. Or ‘raunch culture.’ ” Fey and company responded to this vein of "girl-on-girl crime"...
The Odor of Things
...for intellectual discipline. So it was a surprise when he accepted the 2003 Novelist of the Year award from a council funded by the Ministry of Culture after declining many...
The Devil You Know
...writers like Gaiman, Morrison, Moore, and Ellis. As comics culture has become more mainstream, the room for oppositional comics is restricted. Hellblazer now sells a third of what it did...
The Primitive Accumulation of Cool
...express our uniqueness through the material culture we assembled for ourselves. Without consumer goods, our true self would rest dormant within us, untouched by the desire that could vivify it....
Open Secrets: Literature as Gossip in the Digital Age
...quickly became famous for sharing their most intimate secrets, for getting metaphorically naked in public. Confessional literature is by no means new. In The Culture of Narcissism, for instance, Christopher...
No Accidents, Comrade
...increasingly crowd out the chance new discoveries will be made. Narratives using chance in American culture — the rags-to-riches story, or immigrant emigration story lines — are so prominent, they...
Trollope's The Vicar of Bullhampton
...it's a huge part of their labor's marketability. And in a culture where most traits are deemed heritable, like property, great effort must be made to stop the communicability of...
Meritocracy and measurement myths
...opportunity to thrive through rigorous and ceaseless testing. I imagine that some view the Occupy unrest in this light; our culture's well-groomed and highly educated elite could be looking out...
The Semiautobiographers
...culture. Against these obedient arcs, a little narrative graffiti is more than welcome. New Narrative and its daughters refuse the old dictate that women be demure and follow the rules,...
Memory and Preservation
...was already frayed and past any possible human repair. In these futures, we lose past and present. The inhabitants of “Imaginum” therefore take steps to preserve and protect culture,...
How It Feels to Be Free
Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske discuss Latinx poetics and what it means to be a Puerto Rican poet and translator after the devastation of Hurricane Maria.
Shame: A Durkheimian Take
...read, otherwise I'm just another selfish Tory). Instead, he just appears utterly stuck with himself. In these respects, Brandon's character is entirely at odds with the therapy culture of New...