June 2020

My father once said, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” It is taken from Love Story, a 1970 movie based on the novel of the same name...

In the current climate of #BlackLivesMatter and the Coronavirus, how to write about bread? Interviewed, on Thursday June 9th, Angela Davis said...

Prince Andrew and Dominic Cummings would likely not get along. Perhaps they might concord to share some garlic doughballs in Pizza Express...

Late in 1623, the Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London fell ill with fever and had difficulty breathing. At 51 years of age, the poet and priest John Donne...

Mister Rogers typically kept his distance, but when he did break quarantine he would strike against racism and other prejudice...

Constant specter of illness and death, increasing likelihood of unemployment, nail in the coffin of the post-World War II order.

Here we go again. Another black person killed by the US police. Another wave of multiracial resistance. Another cycle of race talk on the corporate media.

It was 10 p.m. on a Tuesday, and I was watching footage of secret stockpiles of N95 masks

Thomas Travisano paints a structured, sensitive portrait of Bishop. He is at his best when explaining her work, which he immaculately interweaves with her life.

The very terminology—“black citizen”—was, of course, an oxymoron upon the birth of this very nation...

The Financial Times reported today that the UK has the worst death rate from Covid-19 ‘among countries that produce comparable data’...

This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 is a compelling and exhaustive work that examines the long history of anti-black violence and racism in Kansas...

Professors who switch to teaching online are the ‘perfect equivalent of the university teachers who in 1931 swore allegiance to the Fascist regime’. So says Giorgio Agamben...