Un(der)known Writers: Nicola Chiaromonte
...Photo: Hiroshima, Japan (1945) “The individual who has lived through a great historical upheaval has not only been dispossessed of his beliefs. He has found himself face to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
So French
...beautiful, or is this all circular - we define "beauty" as that-which-is-French, giving those-who-are-French an advantage? Why not Japan, with its miracle hair-care products that I randomly discovered while shopping...
How Can You Watch That Stuff?
...Society almost succeeded in driving the combined imperial powers of the U.S., Europe, and Japan out of China. Capoeira, the Brazilian fighting style which looks more like dancing than combat,...
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...
The Future, Probably
...Overdrive were being written, Japan, as Gibson explains here, was "the global imagination's default setting for the future" ("Modern Boys and Mobile Girls"). That possible future may not be a...
Justice in One Country
...for example) and also “detached from his own marginality.” But in a world where, as André 3000 puts it, “across cultures, darker people suffer most,” detaching is easier for some...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 14)
...masala sauce may have been sampled by seagulls before it had gotten to you All-beef burger but hold the cow? You got it, if you happen to live in Japan...
Sunday Reading
...bombing of Japan" "State officials ordered the photos removed from a website operated by the University of Texas at Austin." "three ambulances failed to find the Olympic velodrome because their...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.12.13
...plan is job-cutting—and exiting some markets entirely, including Ireland and Vietnam. Financial analysts applaud the move. Beauty tech: Beauty appliances are booming in Japan, which means someday soon we Americans...
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,...
Why Couldn’t Richard Aoki Have Been an Informant?
...considered a threat to national security and exploitable by axis powers, in particular Japan, who was promoting its own version of Black-Asian solidarity. As a Cold War strategy the White...
Hospitality and The Hairworm
...across a paper published by two scientists in Japan, who had been studying my favorite parasite, the Nematomorpha, or horsehair worm. Their research, published by the Ecological Society of America...