We were from a related background. We were familiar with pozole, mesquite, the coastal breeze, the salty taste of the ocean, sunburns, apathy, and ennui. Our families were laborers, factory…
The following day I spent some time with the Manson Bloggers. We had ventured out to the northwestern fringes of Los Angeles County; the area that the Manson Family once…
On a cold winter morning two years ago, Jeff Mansfield and I were the only ones awake on the porch of a cabin in Virginia. We were both sipping our…
Thomas Y. Levin is a German professor at Princeton University who typically lectures on Weimar cinema and the Frankfurt School during the week.
On weekends, he often goes to the Golden…
In November of the previous year, I had the opportunity to visit a private grove in the southern Sierra Nevada and come across the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive.
This group of…
The passing of every person reduces me,
As I belong to the human race.
--John Donne
1,000,000 individuals from New York who have been disregarded.
Misplaced, unnoticed,…
We arrived in the Punjabi town just before dawn, and the still, humid summer air was filled with music.
Millions flock to the hilly, mediaeval town of Pakpattan in Pakistan…
It was a Saturday morning in the middle of summer 2013 when Vijay Kumar, a shipping executive based in Singapore, received a news alert on his mobile.
This notification was…
Filmistan, the heart of India’s film industry, is a vibrant and bustling city. Home to some of the most iconic films ever made, it is the ultimate destination for film…
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In essence, the idea is to alter the structure of the text while still keeping the same context and meaning. It is important to retain the markdown formatting as…
Morehshin Allahyari, an Iranian artist, has devoted her long-term art project, She Who Sees the Unknown, to reviving stories of female/queer djinn in Islamic culture that have been neglected or…
This is the most feared and deadly fighting art known to humankind, and is unequalled in its capacity for MAIMING, MUTILATING, DISFIGURING, PARALYZING and CRIPPLING. Very few people on the…
This image portrays a person waiting for something that could potentially be bad. It is a photograph taken by Sam Lipsyte.
It could happen any minute now: Michel Houellebecq, the notorious…
As the sun set across the wide bow of Lago Mentiroso, or Lying Lake, in the Amazon Basin of Bolivia, the sky was filled with the shrill cries of blue…
It all began when a female plucked an apple.
Back in the spring of 1848, Maggie and Kate Fox were aged 14 and 11 respectively. They were two lovely girls who…
At the commencement of the lesson, a prayer is recited, however there is no mention of Jesus, Muhammad, any holy figures, nor a deity of the Abrahamic faiths. Additionally, no…
Ryan Ruby is a unique kind of child’s play. Known as “The Ultimate Game of Imagination,” Ryan Ruby is a game that allows children to use their creativity and explore…
Genius coms in many forms, but often its most profound works are forgotten in the vastness of time.
From ancient scrolls to modern inventions, the voices of genius are often silenced…
"Notes in the margin" is a phrase that conjures up images of teachers adding comments to student essays or readers highlighting passages in a book. It's a powerful tool that…
There’s an optical illusion that went viral a few years ago, an illustration from a nineteenth-century German humor magazine. From one angle, the drawing looks like a duck; from another,…
REACHING OUT FROM AFAR
In 2014, Jussi Tuovinen, an engineer from Helsinki, accepted a position at a research institution at Trinity College in Dublin. Being far from his wife and…
The Nose
If all our genius lies in our nostrils, as Nietzsche remarked, the nose is an untrained genius, brilliant but erratic. The human nose can detect a dizzying array…
It was the fall of 1966, as the Las Vegas Strip was just beginning to sparkle and sprawl, when a young architect and planning professor by the name of Denise…
Jose Orduna is an up-and-coming artist who has made waves in the art world with his unique and captivating works on border acts. His artwork addresses the complex issues of…
California wildfires are some of the most destructive natural disasters faced by the state in recent years.
The destruction they leave behind can be heartbreaking, but the stories of resilience…
what’s the point of a crush that doesn’t ruin you
—@clare
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To apply Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structural anthropology, a crush is called a crush because it crushes you. A crush…
Pasolini’s Legacy
Pasolini is remembered for his diverse and provocative body of work, which pushed the boundaries of what was considered acceptable in film and literature.
His creations have had…
Years ago, when my body simply was what it was, soft and long, before I had even contemplated changing it into anything else, I came across Martin Schoeller’s Female Bodybuilders…
I remember the moment I lost my sense of smell and taste, like the flick of a switch, on a Zoom call with old college friends, one in Atlanta, the…
During the 1921 obscenity trial involving James Joyce’s Ulysses, a dispute broke out between the prosecuting attorney and the defense team in the New York courthouse. The assistant district attorney…
