What’s missing from the debate over gun violence is the recognition that the power of our culture’s dominant narratives is at the heart of the issue.
To swap “men’s work” and “women’s work” solves no problems; it’s not about the work but who performs it. The issue is the way in which we gender and correspondingly devalue certain kinds of labor.
What could book reviews learn from video game reviews?
Ti West’s The Sacrament and the Dangers of Fictionalized Horror
If the movie that employs that real-life horror hews so closely to the facts that it’s practically a dramatization, tension is bled out and the scares telegraphed by history.
I dive off the cliff after my computer. I catch it, but I die.
John Stamos brings them cups of Oikos on a silver platter. Dannon leans back on the tired trope of sexual desire.
To Be The One Who Doesn’t Wait
Via filthy, international first-class mail, do you become both lover and loved one, the one who does not wait?
Babelsprech International: Young Finnish Poets
All concrete buildings and monstrous shopping centers, the inconspicuous town of Jyväskylä has grown into the most important center for Finnish poetry after Helsinki.
The fire imagery in the Hunger Games films and advertising campaigns recalls the use of self-immolation as a form of political protest.
As more and more people are questioning the value of a college education, branding — the process of creating perceived value out of thin air — is becoming increasingly important for universities.