Get Thee to a University
...ticket and came on the train." Hessler couldn't deviate further from the standard post–9/11 construct if she tried. No retiring domestic goddess, she, like so many other women, felt duty-bound...
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
Masstige and Bargain Beauty
...knowing that I’ve tried less expensive brands and that the high-ish price actually buys quality in this case. What nonfinancial rewards are most likely to drive your own beauty purchases?...
#JustineHasLanded
...and Steve are a “we” together—Justine Sacco’s joke became a greasefire because she tried to perform both sides of the play, to be both the minstrel and the straight man,...
Safe in Our Archives
...artists have tried to realize this utopian aspiration have shifted over time. Modernism sought a "true self" that was different from the given, contingent identity; postmodernismhoped to dissolve identity into...
It's Hip to Eat Mare
...prime of life and its muscle strength is too firm.] The horses I sell grow up in the south of France or in Normandy where there’s a huge horse culture....
Full Fathom Five Thy Father Dines
...and underwent multiple tests in the murky waters of the Thames. The first military application came in 1776, when a small, acorn-shaped machine named Turtle tried, and failed, to sink...
Rootless and Ruthless
...and dreaming of a future where we could be proud of ourselves. We tried terribly hard to save each other, in the way that young people do, sharing out whatever...
Socializing the Dark Web
...is by far the easiest of the tools needed to access the dark web that I've tried. It's really just download, extract, and double-click, then you're on your way. True,...
Desecration Hardware, 4 (1920s Odeon Glass Fringe Chandelier)
...got hotter and we rotted and the light of afternoon tried hard to make it through the fibrous leaves and plunging gobs but succeeded only in being a green dusk...
Consider the Humblebrag
...idol hearthrob. Tried not to talk too much or eat too much. Succeeded at neither!” Particularly popular are the 15-minutes-of-fame variety, like @ReallyVirtual’s “Uh oh, now I’m the guy who...
What's the Matter Boss, We Sick?
...Koroma’s cause. As these kinds of mistakes plague their presidencies, these leaders have tried to assert symbolic control of the situation and thereby preserve the system they have made and...
Editors' Note, Vol. 36: Stars
...you navigate only by your libido. Or if you feel you’ve tried everything here, move to another planet entirely: In “No Spin Zone,” Erik Petigura discusses the recent boom of...
Geographer's Revenge
...unsolvable, being ultimately manifestations of the analyst’s pessimism or optimism. And in a complex world, pessimists and optimists can always find evidence. Contemporary geographers, however, have tried to move past...
Edith Wharton and Yo Momma
...that I tried to circumvent in the piece was that female writers will forever be judged on the way we look, something my own experience has backed up when I've...
I ♥ Ⓐ
...less devoted to reporting as a profession than as a means of learning about stuff I'm curious about. And the Occupy culture was constantly making demands upon one to step...