Where the Bird Disappeared – Ghassan Zaqtan
Time isn’t linear, and it’s in this way that the book resists both nationalist and anti-nationalist narratives about how a Palestinian people have progressed or failed.
Cinema in the Digital Age – Nicholas Rombes
I associate theaters less with the quiet company of unknown others, and more with the annoyance of an introvert forced to enjoy herself in public.
By virtue of being the child of a migrant, Lorraine Hansberry understood something deep about all these spaces that were supposed to be hopeful.
The Reality Industrial Complex
Novels should have killed poetry. Television should have killed radio. Digital should have killed paper.
Steele said in an interview that he was interested in the blog as a “vehicle to tell jokes,” which partially gets at what the entries feel like.
Familiar Things – Hwang Sok-Yong
FAMILIAR THINGS by renowned South Korean author Hwang Sok-Yong offers a vivid reminder that our mountains of detritus are also a human issue.
The dynamic of competitive youth women’s athletics is extremely weird and fertile and interesting.
Society Elsewhere – Francis Sanzaro
More or less everyone nowadays runs the risk of becoming one of the socially discarded.
I’ve been thinking about death a lot. It’s hard not to when you’re carrying around a small, black volume wearing its name.
The Mantle is one of the monsters in Monsters, Inc. It’s a monster, but a lovable one. And one day I will tame it, because right now it’s sure as hell riding me around.