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Arabic SF – Subversive Futures
Alberto MucciJun 20, 2014
Game of Thrones: Season 4, "The Children"
Arya's American Fantasy
Sarah MesleJun 20, 2014
- Dear Television
The Prison Show's Dilemma
'Orange is the New Black,' Season 2
Maurice ChammahJun 20, 2014
- Television
Kara Walker: A Subtlety at the Domino Sugar Factory
: Kara Walker and the spectacle of spectatorship.
Francey RussellJun 20, 2014
Krys Lee on South Korea, Writing, and Disaster
From "Around the World"
Jeff KingstonJun 20, 2014
Surviving the Black Sea: An appreciation of David Stoliar, the sole survivor of the 1942 Struma disaster
A tribute to David Stoliar, the sole survivor of the 1942 Struma disaster.
Kaya GençJun 19, 2014
YAC Hit List: For the Young, Fantastically Complex Reader
“I think all my books for teenagers have ended up being about being heard. Being taken seriously. Being treated as a complex creation who doesn’t always get things right but — importantly — also doesn’t always get things wrong.”
Patrick NessJun 18, 2014
- Young Adult & Children’s Literature
Specimen Days: How Bosnia Qualified and I Survived
Pauls ToutonghiJun 18, 2014
- Sports
Los Angeles Plays Itself, or Sunshine and Noir
It is 20 years since O.J. Simpson took his epic noirish Bronco ride. It was an otherwise beautiful day.
Will Di NoviJun 17, 2014
The Autocrat’s Guide To World Cup Qualification
Karl SharroJun 17, 2014
- Sports
Funny Man: Louis C.K.'s Pulled Punchlines
First as farce, then as tragedy.
Micah HauserJun 16, 2014
- Television
The Literature of the Second Gilded Age
Thomas Piketty has shown that we are living in a Second Gilded Age. A literature for a second gilded age has already arrived.
Stephen MarcheJun 16, 2014
Where’s My Dad?
Sofiya Alexandra takes a wry look at the unlikely dad candidates of her childhood imagination.
Sofiya AlexandraJun 15, 2014
- Humor
“Being Burmese”: Anti-Muslim Violence and Burma’s Modern-Day Frontiers
From "Around the World"
Francis WadeJun 15, 2014
More than a Sport: What the World Cup Means to Spain
What the World Cup means to Spain
Aaron ShulmanJun 13, 2014
- Sports
World Cup Diary: Losing Brazil 2014 to the Future
Losing Brazil 2014 to the Future
Grant FarredJun 12, 2014
- Sports