...is evidence that its object is something essentially intractable. “These are the ways I’ve tried and failed to manage my life,” my friend says to me. Her bookshelf of dusty...
...ousted him from Rome and tried to cut out his tongue. The Pope was weak, but his gift allied him powerfully with the symbol of God’s earthly reign. How the...
...a paper his Freshman year, something that was done without his consent. In example after example, the organization publicly shames young men who have simply tried to provide for themselves...
The Holocaust is popularly narrativized through tropes that erase resistance efforts in favor of redemption arcs, redefining “never again” to the advantage of fascists.
...perhaps forgive Quiggin this last sin, though, since, quite frankly, what you and I think matters considerably less than what economists teach and practice. As Keynes himself wrote in the...
...to oblivion Who speaks for British Jews? The History, Myth, and Music of Syrian Druze singer Asmahan [podcast] An Indian Typography Cogs in the wheel: A day in the life...
...in literature. An overlooked or shameful or abandoned part of the self that we have left to A-Z Dream Dictionary, music video flashback sequences, and Sigmund “royal road to the...
...After Akerman’s death on October 5, 2015, her longtime cinematographer Babette Mangolte introduced the newly restored Jeanne Dielman at the Museum of Modern Art by noting that, more than ever,...
...culture is etched into products that define the player-construct’s existence." Videogames Without Players A review of Kitty Horrorshow's Dust City On Furniture Design in Videogames The Death and Life of...
Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play
...Wits University in Johannesburg: a threat which sets a worrying trend for times to come for all of us who teach at universities. The backdrop is the militarisation of our...
...entertainment. The sense of “capturing” something on film is not far off here; wielding the technology of film, many Westerners from Edison to James Cameron have tried to contain anxieties...