Sunday Reading
...(the) English in Current History Writing East India Company ship routes China & the Ancient Mediterranean World Sounding Islam in China Chinese Muslims & Shari’a Persians & Indians in Japan,...
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...
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...
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...
Dispensing God's Care
Left critiques of the AHCA or Trump’s budget often miss the unique religious goals they serve.
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...
Morpheus Descending
...father's approach to insomnia was likely the exception rather than the rule; most people at the time looked to less complicated remedies. Said Iago to Othello: “Not poppy nor mandragora,...
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....
"Never could I tell him it was him."
... Rufus being Rufus. By atp tyreseus [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Rufus Wainwright’s song, “The Art Teacher,” which I had the great joy of hearing live last...
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...
Vol. 73 Editors’ Note: Lies
What will be the story of how we made another world?
Sunday Reading
...Reeling in the Raj Jacqui Shine: Orchard Beach photos "You were a child once, too." Let's Stop Singing Songs About Women Who Don't Know They're Beautiful Wikipedia list of pastries...
One-Dimensional Woman
...“raping” the victim, and it’s worth noting that while that obfuscating phrasing may be more regularly extended to female teachers, it often comes into use when male teachers are accused...
On Quitting
Most often when I talk about building a life, I have meant something closer to saying that I cannot imagine—or desire—a life here.
The Scent(s) of a Woman
...evanescent as a smell have a history and a culture?”) and (2) its current status as “girl stuff.” Comparatively, the study of wine—which shares a focus on smell and descriptive...
City of Praise
...leaks fluorescent light and you can hear male and female voices singing worship songs. It is as if their praise powers the building. London is ever changing; that’s what cities...