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Shooting Stars

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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.

Laboring Love

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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.

By the Numbers

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What could book reviews learn from video game reviews?

Ti West’s The Sacrament and the Dangers of Fictionalized Horror

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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.

A Writer’s Stress Dreams

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I dive off the cliff after my computer. I catch it, but I die.

2014: Year of the Yogurt Wars

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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

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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

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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 Next Time

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The fire imagery in the Hunger Games films and advertising campaigns recalls the use of self-immolation as a form of political protest.

Brand Brothers

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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.