November 2021
Meta Narrative
Users conform ever more closely to one or a few of the narratives on offer, driven by powerful mimetic dynamics to converge on common thoughts, words, and actions...
Read MoreIn the past money may have made intimacy possible, now intimacy makes money…
Advertising is a major force behind the Internet, promising free content while promoting the ethos of choice. But the possibility of choice has literally put a price on intimacy...
Read MoreProusting in the Republic of Letters
Marcel Proust represents many things. Chief among these perhaps, especially for non-French readers, is quantity...
Read MoreFarah Abdessamad on François-René de Chateaubriand
I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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Hoof, Wing, Paw
I’ve always loved Jim Harrison’s poetry—so full of itself, so direct and hungry and angered and awed...
Read MoreWhere Berlin Begins
From the bridge, I go back, usually, through Babelsberg. I pass flocks of ducks trustingly swimming up to the shore. Above, on a small hill—the palace...
Read MoreArtificial Taste by Mary Wollstonecraft
A taste for rural scenes, in the present state of society, appears to be very often an artificial sentiment, rather inspired by poetry and romances, than a real perception of the beauties of nature...
Read MoreRedefining the Boundaries of Blackness and Germanness
Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement stands at the intersection of questions regarding Black German activism in the post-1970 era...
Read MoreJennifer Keohane on Gary Hart
Character assassination is the intentional destruction of a person’s reputation or credibility through strategic communication...
Read MoreOpened Worlds
None of this was window dressing, or walled off by the same invisible barriers preventing true movement in most video games we’d played...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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