In a country no larger than a small city both in population and area, degrees of separation are limited. Maybe it’s the volcanic geography of the island that has helped to establish and foster such independent identities.
They Gave Me a Useless Education
When you hold up the noteworthy to save a program, you’ll always be at least one example short. For Jay Z’s story to be remarkable, the poverty he came from must still exist.
“Meet the state’s workforce needs” is a dangerous misreading of what it means for universities to provide a public benefit.
The 50 Greatest Moments of My Struggle (So Far)
The best moments from Karl Ove Knausgaard’s autobiographical epic, My Struggle.
Where does the materiality of reading end and literary posturing begin?
No GrAttitude: Peter Tunney Is the Devil
The work of Peter Tunney is incredibly offensive to any sane person’s sensibilities.
My desire to become an unlikely statistic drove me to torture a living animal. Or at least to experience its death in the most intimate way possible: inside my mouth.
Julius Neubronner’s Photographer Pigeons
Freedom of natural flight, fetish of the unknown.
Stuff I’ve Read in the Last Month (Or So): Fantasy and Realism
In order to deal with the terrible dullness of being alive, man invented fantasy novels.
In Sacha Polak’s Zurich, the emotional abyss of grief is charted in a physical landscape, making it a reality.