No album has so consistently tried to kill me as much as Sufjan Stevens’s 2015 Carrie and Lowell.
Category Archive: American Studies
Last Tuesday was Election Day in America. This is a presidential year, so it got more attention. Like […]
With the worst blizzard to strike Chicago in twenty years, I sat in the living room of a shared apartment at the University of Chicago watching the news. The news coverage sent chills deep down to my bones and my stomach was knotted.
Dos Passos’s epic trilogy still indelibly captures the United States in a moment of centrifugal chaos
We still can’t stop thinking about how excited Elaine Benes would be that JFK Jr. is coming back.
We offer reading recommendations amid the banality of the forever-Pandemic.
The Left once tried to own the legacy of America’s Bicentennial, but ran into ideological and structural roadblocks all too familiar today.
Stan Thangaraj on the ways that metaphors can muddy our understanding of history and power.