John Cline

John Cline is a recent doctorate from the University of Texas in American Studies. His work has appeared in The Oxford American, Film & History, and The Grove Dictionary of American Music, among others. He owns an embarrassingly large collection of calypso records.

Austin’s Psychic Heart

On David Heymann's recent collection of short stories, "My Beautiful City Austin."...

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FICTION

Calypso and Caribbean Migration: Lara Putnam’s “Radical Moves”

John Cline reviews "Radical Moves."...

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I Swear I Read This: John Cline Interviews Michael Taussig

HIS BOOKS are ever rooted in the visceral, the experienced — a hallmark of a life in fieldwork. Though the anthropologist Michael Taussig has conducted most of that work in Colombia, his methodology is unique, a kind of embodied philosophy. Throughout ...

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The Wages of Blackface

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Bananas Royale

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Conjuring the Artist/Activist Line

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