Cultural Studies

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

How Women Talk: Heather Wood Rudulph Interviews Deborah Tannen
Heather Wood Rudulph talks to professor Deborah Tannen about her latest, "You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships."
Heather Wood RudulphOct 11, 2017
- Cultural Studies
- Gender & Sexuality
Between Tragedy and Opportunity: Lynne B. Sagalyn’s “Power at Ground Zero”
Stephen Petrus surveys “Power at Ground Zero” by Lynne B. Sagalyn.
Stephen PetrusOct 10, 2017
- Art & Architecture
- Cultural Studies
The Art of Embarrassment and the Embarrassment of Art
Jamie Carragher contemplates the relationship between embarrassment and art.
Jamie CarragherOct 8, 2017
- Art & Architecture
- Cultural Studies
Down with the English Language!
Colin Marshall looks at books by Minae Mizumura and Aamir R. Mufti that lament the rise of global English.
Colin MarshallOct 5, 2017
- Around the World
- Cultural Studies
Culture Is Armor: On Adam Gopnik and the Necessity of the Cultural Intellectual
On Adam Gopnik as a public intellectual.
Cody DelistratyOct 5, 2017
Regarding the Pain of Trump
What Susan Sontag might say about Trump’s response to the Syrian Civil War.
Rebecca ChaceSep 30, 2017
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
“The End Is Where We Start From”: On Evan Kindley’s “Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture”
Bradley Babendir reviews Evan Kindley’s “Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture.”
Bradley BabendirSep 25, 2017
On “Coming of Age”: Margaret Mead’s Correspondence and the Biographical Problem
Deborah Blum’s new biography of anthropologist Margaret Mead poses questions about the ethical underpinnings of early fieldwork and the genre of biography.
Megan TuslerSep 23, 2017
McDonald’s as America: A Conversation with Chris Arnade
Photographer Chris Arnade discusses his use of McDonald’s as a point of entry into the communities he documents.
Sam Jaffe GoldsteinSep 5, 2017
- Art & Architecture
- Cultural Studies
The Last Bastion of Free America?: Meagan Day’s “Maximum Sunlight”
Olivia Durif reviews Meaghan Day’s book about Tonopah, Nevada.
Olivia DurifAug 18, 2017
- Cultural Studies
- Memoir & Essay
A New New White Man: Toni Morrison’s “Playing in the Dark” Turns 25
Joseph Darda on the enduring importance of Toni Morrison’s “Playing in the Dark” as the pathbreaking collection turns 25.
Joseph DardaAug 17, 2017
- Cultural Studies
- Politics
Somebody’s Protest Novel
Chabon apologizes for Israel even when he’s critiquing it. But in 2007, he wrote a novel with an alternate history that sheds a light on the actual present.
Nava EtShalomAug 15, 2017