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Literature

The Goths & Other Stories

June 17, 2020 • by Sasha Kaoru Zamler-Carhart

I In the winter of 476 A.D. the Ostrogoths, hungry and exhausted from wandering for months through barren hills along the confines of the Byzantine Empire, wrote to Emperor Zeno in Constantinople requesting permission to enter the walled city of Epidaurum, and just kinda crash and charge their phones. “My ...

Literature

The Big Cats, Part III

On fever dreams and wounds to lick

June 16, 2020 • by Val Vinokur

A wounded animal conceals itself to hide from death and to seek it....

Race

When the Penis Is Property

Why we can’t talk about the sexuality of enslaved African American men

June 11, 2020 • by Kevin Mumford

In Joseph Lavallée's novel, The Negro Equalled By Few Europeans, an enslaved African man named Itanoko describes being raped by a white slaver named Urban. The white man was "struck with my comeliness,” Itanoko says, which "made him violate, what is most sacred among men.’” According to Thomas Foster’s Rethinking ...

Literature

The Big Cats, Part II

On sleeping dangers, grocery runs, and hiding out in the wilderness

June 9, 2020 • by Val Vinokur

Last night I dreamed there was a tiger sleeping / in the bosom of the family, the same light canary / color as the dog. ...

Literature

The Big Cats, Part I

On tigers, Richard Brautigan, and six feet of distance

June 2, 2020 • by Val Vinokur

In the Bronx the tigers have come down / with a dry cough and febrile dreams...

Democracy

Troilus and Cressida and a Diseased Body Politic

Reading Shakespeare in a time of plague

May 28, 2020 • by Emily Pitts Donahoe

We are perennially curious about what Shakespeare can teach us about our own world, hoping to find instruction and solace in his plays, poems, and exemplary turns of phrase. Recently, this curiosity has produced a score of tweets and articles speculating about Shakespeare’s productivity during periods when the plague ravaged London, ...

Troilus and Cressida and a Diseased Body Politic

Art & Design

The Urn

How I Stopped Loving Design

May 21, 2020 • by Marcin Wicha

Despite the disappointment, something very valuable was salvaged from our conversations. We had been sharing our enthusiasm for the writers Jerzy Pilch and Olga Tokarczuk when Pawel introduced me to the work of Marcin Wicha. Wicha is as sardonic as Pilch and Tokarczuk, and like them, he writes about politics. ...

Reviews

Void Bitches

To be trans is to be already left out of the design of the world.

May 21, 2020 • by McKenzie Wark

If trans writers have an affinity for the disaster of the world, maybe it’s because our bodies are a disaster already. Now that the whole planet has some kind of dysphoria, maybe it’s our time to shine. It’s a ludicrous idea, I know, but one reads in these times with a ...

Reviews

Whose Home? Whose Rule?

Nandita Sharma’s Home Rule and the politics of autochthony

May 21, 2020 • by Mat Cusick

Nandita Sharma, Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (Duke University Press: 2020) In February 2002, five months after Narendra Modi became chief minister of Gujarat, an anti-Muslim pogrom erupted in his state. In three months of violence, Hindu nationalist rioters raped and murdered hundreds of Muslim ...

Interviews

Hope, Revolution, and Survival

An interview with Morgan Parker

May 11, 2020 • by Masha Shollar and Morgan Parker

Masha Shollar [MS]: You’ve said that you trick yourself into writing by making yourself laugh. This collection is so intense and not one I would automatically think of as humorous, even though poems like “Matt” and “Brooklyn” for instance are, in ways, very funny. But they still had these dark ...

Fashion

Killing It

TV’s Killing Eve as fashion epiphany

May 6, 2020 • by Susan Yelavich

Eve, whose sense of style borders on grunge, is the foil to Villanelle’s haute couture. The government agent’s closet is a study in neutrals, while her counterpart’s is as highly keyed as her sociopathic personality. Villanelle fears nothing, certainly not color. Her wardrobe is as eclectic as Eve’s is predictable. But ...

Art & Design

5 Charts that Explain COVID-19 Impacts in NYC

Social Vulnerability Indicators Predict Inequity in NYC COVID-19 Cases

May 4, 2020 • by Timon McPhearson, Ahmed Mustafa, Luis Ortiz, Zbigniew Grabowski, Pablo Herreros Cantis, Christopher Kennedy and Claudia Tomateo Chang

Once again frontline, low income and communities of color are most impacted. At the time of this writing, there have been 147,297 confirmed cases and 15,869 deaths in New York City, with the City on mandatory “P.A.U.S.E” until May 15, 2020. In early March, the Urban Systems Lab team asked the question, ...