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Notes from a reluctant memoirist.
The second annual Dyke March goes international on June 25, 1994. More photos in the Lesbian Avengers image archive . BY KELLY COGSWELL Ind ...
Olympic architecture and a lost opportunity in Sochi
Fireworks over the Fisht Olympic Stadium in Sochi, Russia, during the 2014 Winter Olympics. BY KATHLEEN JAMES-CHAKRABORTY Professor of art histor ...
War, poverty, and the War on Poverty: 50 years later
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Poverty Bill (also known as the Economic Opportunity Act) on Aug. 20, 1964, while press and supporters of the b ...
Anything can happen in sport.
A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Grant Farred offers a penetrating new analysis of "the event" from a surprisi ...
'Pandemonium' and the 20th anniversary of Derek Jarman's passing
BY TONY PEAKE Biographer of Derek Jarman On the 19th of February, it will have been 20 years since Derek Jarman died, at age 52, of HIV-related caus ...
Where William S. Burroughs became a writer
Source: Christiaan Tonnis, Flickr . The following is an excerpt from the lecture of author Jorge García-Robles, delivered today at The Burrough ...
The Burroughs Century
"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks." —William S. Burroughs William S. Burroughs ...
Cover design process: Prismatic Ecology
Our hot-off-the-press book Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green uses color as a guide to theoretical reflection on innovations that arrive when ...
Mary Relindes Ellis: Why the past is critical to understanding our present.
The original Washington Avenue Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, circa 1880, photographed from the north, showing the Bohemian F ...
"This is not, perhaps, the homily that most Americans will expect from me." —Walter Mondale
President Jimmy Carter with Walter Mondale before departing for Guadalupe on Jan. 4, 1979. Photo from the National Archives and Records Administration ...