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- Our New Sovereign
- BY GREGG LAMBERT Syracuse University In the light of the recent violence and sovereign personages, I have been reflecting on the conclusion of Arendt ...
- Sexlexia: Reading Sex Work and Genre
- BY NICHOLAS DE VILLIERS I have just returned from a lovely experience filming an interview segment for Juliana Piccillo’s documentary Whores on F ...
- Fun with Your Modern Head
- Fritz Kahn, "Der Mensch als Industriepalast" (2d ed, ca. 1929). Artist: Fritz Sh ü ler. © Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart. National Library of Medicine. ...
- Remember Soup, Poop, and Climate Change: Veering with Game of Thrones
- Image: HBO BY CORD J. WHITAKER Like the plot of Game of Thrones, memory resists standing still. And Game of Thrones is all about memory. The ...
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Minnesota State Fair's tunnel of love.
- BY DAVE PAGE When my friend and co-author Jack Koblas began doing research on F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1970s, quite a few of Fitzgerald’s St. Pau ...
- "In the United States . . . where such events are always now."
- An excerpt from Words to Our Now : Imagination and Dissent by Thomas Glave (2005). Chapter: "(Re-)Recalling Essex Hemphill: Words to Our Now." It h ...
- The Book of the Dead: Longlist for the 2017 National Translation Award in Prose
- The first complete English translation of Orikuchi Shinobu’s masterwork, The Book of the Dead is a sweeping historical romance telling a gothic tale ...
- Midsummer Eve: A gateway to another, sometimes dangerous, world.
- BY VIDAR SUNDSTØL In the old days in Norway—up until the end of the 19th century—the night between the 23rd and 24th of June was the night to ha ...
- Book Ends: On writing, being, and sensing an ending.
- It is not to be expected of critics as it is of poets that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser f ...
- Algonquins' struggle for land, coexistence builds as Canada's 150th approaches.
- BY SHIRI PASTERNAK Assistant professor, School for the Study of Canada at Trent University If Canadians want to understand why some First Nations ar ...