A work of art by any standards ...
...Illustration from China and Japan: Being a Narrative of the Cruise of the U.S. Steam-Frigate Powhatan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59, and '60 (1861) "Not a single...
Humid, All Too Humid
...Earthquakes in Japan, Thailand, Chile, Pakistan, Haiti, etc. were the result of global warming? Only pseudoscientists have answers, which are about as compelling as religious fanaticism. And those condemned Bangladeshis,...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...in Eastern nations like China, India, and Japan. But even there, it wasn’t no Aryan princesses being lauded as the most attractive. This faux science posits all the history and...
A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops
How the RCMP has secured the imperialist power of the north
Beauty Blogosphere 12.7.12
...else?—Japan, and I die. Women, food, and the therapeutic narrative: Charlotte Shane argues that the social narrative around food is disordered, and we're not talking in a Michael Pollan...
This Week in Art Crime
...depiction of genitalia, which instead must appear censored or pixelated in film and photography. Despite this, Japan has a booming pornography industry, a strange dichotomy that Igarashi's artwork and subsequent...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of January 5, 2020)
...bags of shrimp from a local supermarket by stuffing them down his pants A reflection on the contentious issue of "food authenticity" Food manufacturers in Japan add theme parks to...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of November 25, 2019)
...eatery "Immigrant Food" occupies a spot near the White House More and more adults are asking "Why eat meals when you can snack," study finds Social media's impact on Japan's...
Review: Girl Model
...and getting no work—despite the agency’s promise of at least two jobs during their stay in Japan—they think to examine their contracts. Lo and behold, if they gain a centimeter...
Built to Last
...as unoccupied as they look. They were very, very empty. RB: How then do these stadiums figure into local culture? JMS: A couple of the big complexes are actually south...
Hello, Round of 16; Farewell, Hair We've Left Behind
...in splendor. Your World Cup journey continues; 'tis a pity your World Hair Cup voyage must stop here. Keisuke Honda, Japan. Position: Forward. Hair: Remarkable. Keisuke Honda, as with...
The Quiet Life
...efforts of its narrator. He is also named Jesse Ball, though he refers to himself throughout the manuscript as Int., for Interviewer. He has come to a village in Japan’s...
Kenya Will Never Was
...website, that one of the largest sources of funding is Japan, but the Kenyans’ refrain of “The West...” still remains. The journalists sound baffled. One chants the party line: Westerners...
Defending Rojava
...but also the patriarchy and rape culture prevalent among their own community. After all, ISIS exploits the concept of 'honor' in the region, constructed around women’s bodies and sexualities. Thus,...
Sunday Reading
...uncontacted tribes Return of the blacklist? Cowardice and censorship at the University of Illinois The definition of academic freedom, for many, does not accommodate dissent. Nothing Unintentional Multicultural Japan? Discourse...
Grudge Lust
...oneself with Shakespeare, Whigs, Tories, and Reformers all (perhaps most of English culture and many Englishmen), his former friends, and, most of all, himself. Midway through the essay, Hazlitt writes,...