In addition to taking over America’s public imagination – isn’t everyone a “foodie” these days? – Food Studies […]
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Longtime friend of Tropics of Meta Pavel Shlossberg just published his first book, a fantastic ethnographic study of […]
Why do we play the shell game of the so-called “knowledge economy”? The reasons are many, and few […]
Last December, amidst one of D.C.’s colder and more snow-filled winters, a symbol of the city’s musical past […]
When New York Times notifications lit up iPhones on Friday announcing “Bill Simmons is leaving ESPN,” it highlighted […]
In 1991’s surfing bromance “Point Break,” former Big Ten quarterback and F.B.I. agent Johnny Utah infiltrates a notorious […]
In October 2014, Taylor Swift dropped her fifth album, 1989. Less than a month later in November, she […]
[Editor’s Note: Fifteen years ago, a a group of Jewish and Latino activists began efforts to renovate and […]