The Hyena’s Laugh: I. U. Tarchetti and the Birth of Italian Gothic
Lawrence Venuti resurrects the fantastic tales of Iginio Ugo Tarchetti....
The Juridical Is Libidinal: From the First Amendment to “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
As Maggie Hennefeld explains, Sacha Baron Cohen’s satire takes scatological aim at the American body politic at its most abject....
Almost Home
The artifacts of white supremacy are part of the landscape of Atlanta....
The Beheading of Rhodes in Cape Town
Nadia Davids reflects on the sawed-away bust of Cecil Rhodes in light of confrontations with memorials both in Cape Town and across the world....
Platonov’s Weeping Cow
Samuel Liu appreciates the Soviet-era author Andrei Platonov, who “deforms language to match the contortion of his emotional need.”...
Adrift in Cosmic Quarantine: Randy Newman Turns 77
The great singer-songwriter has spent a lifetime turning bluesy snark into pop gold....
The Myth of Mestizaje
A celebrated Mexican anthropologist explodes one of his nation’s founding myths....
Mourning and Marginalia: Editing the Work of Christopher Chitty
Editors Max Fox and Madeline Lane-McKinley talk about working on "Sexual Hegemony," the recently published text by the late writer Christopher Chitty....
“This Constructed Self of Mine”: On the Narrative Possibilities of Racial Melancholia
Kim Hew-Low on the ways BIPOC writers assemble their stories....
Reading Mike Davis in Toronto: Police Violence and the Global City
David Helps on the city where “City of Quartz” was written....
Hard Times: Martin Hägglund’s “This Life” and the Pomodoro Technique
What makes the Pomodoro Technique difficult to criticize is not simply that we need PT-like scaffolds in the realm of freedom....
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: One Month of "The Queen's Gambit"
For Dear Television, Aaron Bady remembers what it was like to watch the soothing counterfactuals of The Queen's Gambit all the way back in October 2020....
