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An Interview with Helene Uri, author of CLEARING OUT
INTRODUCTION BY TRANSLATOR BARBARA SJOHOLM As the translator of Clearing Out , I’m delighted to be able to introduce the Norwegian author Helene U ...
College is for the connections . . . and the architecture
BY CARLA YANNI After the recent college admissions scandal in the United States, many people were left scratching their heads. Who would pay half a m ...
The Big Surreal
BY JOANNA FRUEH Surrealism is an art and literary movement in the early twentieth century. Its best-known work is a painting by Salvador Dali, The P ...
Earth Day 2018: Facing the greatest human-rights challenge of our time.
You can sign up for a chance to win this broadside produced for the occasion of the publication of The Right to Be Cold by Sheila Watt-Cloutier. Give ...
The End of Man, One More Time.
BY JOANNA ZYLINSKA The apocalypse is back—with a vengeance! Cue the visually intriguing Altered Carbon on Netflix, the conceptually teasing yet di ...
Uncovering the brave women behind mental-health reform in Minnesota.
BY SUSAN BARTLETT FOOTE Professor emerita in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota In the past two years, the Women's March and ...
Carving out the Commons: Fighting Displacement in the Capitalist City
BY AMANDA HURON Assistant professor of interdisciplinary social sciences at the University of the District of Columbia On Christmas Eve 1977, the wo ...
On gaming, athletes, and individual glory . . . oh, Mercy!
CHRISTOPHER A. PAUL Associate Professor, Seattle University The core argument in my book is that video games are an actualized meritocracy, a realm ...
International Women's Day 2018: On feminism's political message and its past, present, and future.
BY JANET HALLEY, PRABHA KOTISWARAN, RACHEL REBOUCHÉ, AND HILA SHAMIR As we celebrate International Women’s Day, it is hard not to be struck by ho ...
Sergei Eisenstein and the Ecstasies of the Book.
BY LUKA ARSENJUK University of Maryland, College Park “It certainly seems that all art forms in their extreme manifestations, i.e. where they atte ...