2011
Markha Valenta on the Utøya island shooting
AUF Summer Camp on Utøya, 2010, photograph by Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking (AUF) by Markha Valenta However nuanced, it is striking how little extant interpretations attend to the fact that Breivik’s most grotesque violence was not directed at Muslims or immigrants as such but at the youth members of the Norwegian...
Read MoreCalvin Schermerhorn: Family and Freedom
After the Sale: Slaves Going South, Eyre Crowe, 1853 by Calvin Schermerhorn When enslaved Americans confronted the intensifying market economy of the nineteenth-century United States, they faced ominous changes and serious challenges. If they lived in the coastal upper South – Delaware plus the eastern portions of Maryland, Virginia,...
Read More‘A blistered FDNY here, a melted AMBULANCE there’
Photograph by Francesc Torres, from Memory Remains: 9/11 Artefacts at Hangar 17 From London Review of Books: Long resident in New York, the Catalan artist Francesc Torres was two blocks from the WTC when the first jet struck the north tower, and he witnessed the collapse of both buildings...
Read MoreCarolyn Bronstein: Feminism and Porn
Women’s First March Against Porn, Broadway and Columbus, 1977, photograph from San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library by Carolyn Bronstein Beginning in the mid-1970s, many American feminists viewed pornography (and its presumed causal relationship to violence against women) as the single greatest threat to female autonomy. Ideological changes...
Read MoreLisa Klarr: Gothic Yoknapatawpha
by Lisa Klarr As Teresa Goddu argues, the ‘American’ gothic is usually a ‘regional term,’ referring quite specifically to the South. In the 19th Century, the region functions as a ‘repository’ for a variety of cultural anxieties having mostly to do with the moral degeneration of the nation. But...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI 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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