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.
The Sensory Inexplicable
Encounters with two David Wojnarowicz exhibits ask how to feel the history and experience of AIDS in America
Instructions for Young Manhood
...1903, he opened Physical Culture City in a New Jersey suburb. Residents devoted themselves completely to being healthy. They didn’t smoke or drink. They wanted never to detach from the...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.18.12
...whose situation makes salon work the best job option for you—but you come from a culture that considers touching other people's feet a demeaning taboo? ...And Everything In Between: Red...
Facebook division of labor and the rewired society
...everything is always beta. "Hacker culture is also extremely open and meritocratic" -- of course it is, just like neoliberalism, or capitalism itself. Markets always let the deserving "win." I'm...
Soft Rebellion
...the West understands it, did not exist as a concept in Chinese culture until Han Han’s generation discovered it. And like their foreign counterparts, they find it an endlessly renewable...
The White Women of Empire
...de-sexualized barbarians whose country we must infiltrate and dominate to protect our citizens from current danger and our culture from future threat. But it is clear that the helpless and/or...
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...
Kippers for Breakfast
...economic globalization, life within America was becoming ever more vertiginous, as American culture was situated at the vanishing point reflected in two mirrors pointed at each other. Growing up as...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.14.13
...am not the culture of Lululemon. Everyone is the culture of Lululemon." (Ayn Rand would be so disappointed!) Who will succeed her is anyone's guess; Forbes predicts Lululemon will make...
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...
A Very Brief History of Viking Victuals
...a source of pride. Publications on Old Norse culture started appearing as early as the 16th century. It all started in 1867, when excavators digging in a burial mound on...
Coming Out of the Coffin
...culture. The British public's fascination with details of Wilde's trials resulted in a broad condemnation of his character. Even in homosexual circles, Wilde was persona non grata for the rest...
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,...
I Want to Believe
...countless forms in the popular imagination, permeating pop culture, politics, and the persecution anxieties of our booming psychiatric industry. Films like The Adjustment Bureau and television programs like Burn Notice...
The Roads Not Taken
...as in his courtship of Brando, Kerouac strongly conceived of literature as a part of the American culture industry – the machinery of what he called the Beat Generation. Brando...