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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sunday Reading
...by YT. Further context from the NYT: Rutgers Officials Long Knew of Coach's Actions And John Amaechi on sports' bully culture From the Let's Talk About Names series (disclaimer: edited...
Ms. America
...most endearing. Lana Del Rey reacquaints with the danger and intrigue that pop culture once promised our borders held. Borders of class, race, gender, geography—their drama instead of their unromantic...
LIES
...social media are all over fake news and deep fakes. In a culture obsessed with performing veracity, lies are a kind of politics. May our fake visions be as seditious...
Run, Boy, Run
...about a hypocritical religious figure, could just as easily be read as a feminist or reparations revenge anthem. Typically, revenge anthems—like love songs—are too limited. Why punish one cheating bastard...
Not NATO
...Chicago, to cover the #noNato protests. Laurie sent me snaps and stories of her busmates: kids who were singing Disney songs as they prepared to be beaten and arrested. So...
Core Values
...the trees accompanied by bawdy songs that they sang at the top of their voices. This they believed would summon forth fruit in overwhelming abundance. Chapman's unorthodox ways belied a...
A Contribution to the Critique of John Mayer
...and quelling, that series of cuts between which slosh their echoes, their marrow, our froth or songs. With him still out there somewhere, it's almost like what we see when...
Vol. 73 Editors’ Note: Lies
What will be the story of how we made another world?
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 4
...pinning it under me beside the car. It writhed and dripped and started singing broken snippets of my favorite songs, messing up the same words that I did each time,...
Twilight of the Cruise
...Bob Dylan wrote songs about and Patti Smith hung out with. His existential ideal is the titular “cruise”, a philosophy of everyday life defined by constant movement and phenomenological creativity....