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Author: Alex Sayf Cummings

The Tropics of Meta Decade

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Ten years ago, we started Tropics of Meta. The world of 8,000-word essays about Detroit wartime housing would never be the same.

Alex Sayf Cummings January 13, 2020 publishing

Tony Judt on the World We Have Lost and Are Losing

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In his dying years, Tony Judt cautioned us that remembering the 20th century just as a catalog of horrors flattens what actually happened.

Alex Sayf Cummings January 12, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, historians, historiography

When duty texts, remember that you have read-receipt on

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A jittery world watches fascism on the march from Bolivia to India, and Twitter importantly doubles down on Indian food.

Alex Sayf Cummings November 30, 2019 Aneurysms, Best of

Lana Goes to War

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Is it possible that the fire-haired death chanteuse actually has something to say? A ToM special report.

Alex Sayf Cummings November 11, 2019 gender, Lana Del Rey, music, Pop Music

Kruger? I Dunning Know Her

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Impostor syndrome is the shame that dares speak its name.

Alex Sayf Cummings October 7, 2019 academia, Aneurysms, film, politics

That Tick-ing Sound

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Naomi Osaka’s display of grace and integrity reminds us about what matters in a topsy-turvy and bad-faith world.

Alex Sayf Cummings September 1, 2019 epistemology, philosophy, sports, tennis

The House that MC Escher and the Marquis de Sade Built

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Georgia State’s Kell Hall was a mystifying yet charmingly awful symbol of the university’s long ramp from the swamps to the stars.

Alex Sayf Cummings August 29, 2019 architecture, cities, dogs die in hot cars, Education, Georgia, memory, Urban History, urban studies

That One Idea, Again

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For David Berman, the edge was an asymptote.

Alex Sayf Cummings August 9, 2019 indie rock, music

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