St. Paul (A Screenplay)
...companions flee, in the midst of the chaos of the alley, among the little bars of the seaside city, with the lights on in the middle of the night, songs,...
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,...
"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...
Africa : Queer : Anthropology
...more concerned in the anthropology of the changingAfrican, and in the anthropology of the contact of white and coloured, of European culture and primitive tribal life. A mentor told me...
Vol. 73 Editors’ Note: Lies
What will be the story of how we made another world?
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Vol. 74 Editors’ Note: Frenemies
Ambivalence reigns
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of October 13, 2019)
...Piggin' out. New law empowers Maine schools to feed uneaten school-lunch fare to farm hogs Fast-food fulfillment centers? Familiar chains have begun opening "ghost kitchens" dedicated exclusively to deliveries ordered...
Wearing Stigma
...What would we lose by dropping the fashion guidelines that police the stigma of womanhood? And what would we gain? * In looking at my blog feed the...