From Watching to Participating: Kate Bredeson and Lars Jan Discuss 1968 and Jan’s Stage Production of Joan Didion’s “The White Album”
Kate Bredeson and Lars Jan discuss 1968 and Jan’s stage production of Joan Didion’s “The White Album.”...
The Bitchified Decade We’re Still Paying For
Allison Yarrow’s “90s Bitch” explores how pre-2000s culture both celebrated and constrained autonomous femininity....
The Useless French Language and Why We Learn It
Colin Marshall examines English speakers’ relationship to the French language, which is the subject of a growing number of books....
Reverse Cowboy
Disentangling fact from myth in the figure of the American cowboy....
Friends and Enemies: On Slogan Tees
"The popularity of the slogan tee is evidence of the dissolution of the political." Rachel Greenwald Smith on the recent popularity of the slogan tee....
Balancing Act: Richard Sennett’s “Building and Dwelling”
Richard Sennett’s notion of an “open city” articulates how to achieve, or at least think about, the ethical city in the 21st century....
An Elegy for Cemeteries
A book on the rise and fall of American cemeteries....
The New Primitives
Primitivism is back, not that it ever left. Ben Etherington on the historical and contemporary notions of primitivism....
The Words We Don’t Use: On Eviatar Zerubavel’s “Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable”
Dan Friedman parses “Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable” by Eviatar Zerubavel....
Cisco and Microsoft — Their Part in My Downfall; or, the Lost Ethics of Higher Ed; or, Maybe, a Sob Story
Toby Miller reflects on his unfortunate experiences in British academia....
Of Fairylands, Borders, and Charmed Circles: On Julio Capó Jr.’s “Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940”
Carlos Ulises Decena finds a welcome, nuanced portrait of queer history in Julio Capó Jr.’s “Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940.”...
Speaking of the Working Class: On Richard Hoggart
Steven Gotzler on the legacy of Richard Hoggart’s “The Uses of Literacy.”...
