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Cloudy With a Chance of Dystopia: Tung-Hui Hu’s “A Prehistory of the Cloud”

Kevin Driscoll - August 14, 2016

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The Fantastic Worlds of Guy Gavriel Kay

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Jenny Zhang, Nate Brown - August 12, 2016

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A Trickster Imagination

Ilana Teitelbaum - August 12, 2016

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Cloudy With a Chance of Dystopia: Tung-Hui Hu’s “A Prehistory of the Cloud”

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The Fantastic Worlds of Guy Gavriel Kay

Christine Fischer Guy - August 14, 2016

Christine Fischer Guy interviews Guy Gavriel Kay on the role of fantasy in his novels....

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An Ill-Fitting Glove: The Landscape of Rio de Janeiro

Patrick Wilcken - August 14, 2016

Patrick Wilcken peels back the layers of Rio de Janeiro....

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The Philosopher and Her Kisses

Stephanie DeGooyer

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He Gets Us, He Really Gets Us: Jay McInerney’s “Bright, Precious Days” and the Sighs of the One Percent

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The Fresh Air of the Modern World

Shehryar Fazli - August 13, 2016

Leslie M. M. Blume proves that Hemingway matters after all....

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Every Day, a Funeral: Jenny Zhang and Nate Brown in Conversation

Jenny Zhang, Nate Brown

Nate Brown and Jenny Zhang on the role of poet in our society, the two-party system, how every day is a funeral, and poop....


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A Trickster Imagination

Ilana Teitelbaum - August 12, 2016

Helen Oyeyemi’s dazzling technique in “What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours” engages the reader’s mind; the heart is undisturbed....

POLITICS & ECONOMICS, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A Tornado of Causes

Bridey Heing - August 12, 2016

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A Stupid Man: Rufi Thorpe on the Influence of Czesław Miłosz and Writing While Female

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Why Do We Still Buy Oil From Thugs?

Justin Hughes - August 11, 2016

On Leif Wenar's "Blood Oil", the West’s problematic reality of oil trading, and how we can improve its morality....

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The Piety of Shinta Ratri: When Militant Islamists Attacked a Transgender Madrasa, They Attacked Pluralism Itself

Kyle Knight - August 11, 2016

Historically, many Indonesian sexual and gender minorities have lived with a mix of tolerance and prejudice....

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Matt Hartman

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The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Ted Underwood

Melissa Dinsman - August 10, 2016

Part 11 of a new series exploring the role of the digital humanities, as well as the digital in the humanities as it currently exists in the US academy....

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Reorienting the Axis: On “When Watched”

Brandon Williams - August 10, 2016

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M. P. Cooley

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Oneida: The Christian Utopia Where Contraception Was King

Ellen Wayland-Smith - August 9, 2016

Ellen Wayland-Smith examines her ancestors' history in the Oneida Community, a 19th-century religious commune....

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The Managerial Revulsion: Re-Classing Madness in “High-Rise”

Glyn Salton-Cox - August 9, 2016

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Brandeis’s Brain: On “Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet”

Thomas Healy

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Make the Wrong Choice: Rereading Conrad’s “Victory”

Ed Schad - August 8, 2016

On love and Joseph Conrad’s under-read classic, “Victory”....

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Sifting Through “Mortal Trash”

John Domini - August 8, 2016

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David Auerbach

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The Predictor

Scott Laughlin - August 7, 2016

In "Ear to the Ground", Ulin and Kolsby have fun poking at the excesses of Hollywood in a relevant social novel somewhere on the shelf near James M. Cain....

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Me Too, I Say, Me Too: Nicole Dennis-Benn on “Here Comes the Sun”

Nina Revoyr - August 7, 2016

Nina Revoyr talks to Nicole Dennis-Benn about her novel “Here Comes the Sun”, Jamaica, class, and art....

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Shizu Saldamando was born and raised in San Francisco’s Mission district and received her B.A. from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture in 2000. In 2002 she attended ArtOmi International Artist Colony in upstate New York and in 2005 she received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She has exhibited her work in both painting and experimental media exhibitions both locally and internationally participating in the Venice Biennale official collateral exhibitions, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Kyoto University, and The Phantom Sightings Exhibition at LACMA. She has had solo exhibitions at the Vincent Price Museum, Steve Turner Contemporary and Moore College in Philadelphia. She has worked at several arts organizations, taught art for several years to continuation high school students, and currently works as a tattoo artist in East Los Angeles while still exhibiting and creating artwork.  

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