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Consider the Trick Mirror: The Ambivalent Mea Culpa in Contemporary Discourse

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When does the act of acknowledging your own complicity in an unjust system start to look like an empty gesture? Aaron Colton considers the work of Jia Tolentino.

Aaron Colton August 28, 2020 literature, millennials, the Left, writing

Booksmart, Late-Capitalist, Bougie and Banal: Sally Rooney’s Normal People

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Inexplicably acclaimed, Rooney’s novel offers canned millennial gender play with a scrawny garnish of warmed-over Marxism.

Guest August 26, 2020 fiction, gender, Ireland, millennials, television

Your Earwhig Is Truly Magnificent, Sir

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Like discovering free verse, punk rock, or Prince, Guided by Voices offered the awesome realization that you could literally do whatever the fuck you want and it might actually be good.

Alex Sayf Cummings August 22, 2020 1990s, dog days classics, indie rock, music, Ohio

How a Film Flop from 1991 Explains 2020

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Until the End of the World, Wim Wenders’s doomed epic, was shockingly prescient about America’s equally doomed 21st century.

Jason Tebbe August 21, 2020 1990s, dog days classics, film, media studies, technology

Dispatches from Fresno, 1918-19: Following the ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in Real Time, Part XVIII

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The second wave of the virus seemed to be ebbing in January 1919, but health authorities warned Fresnans not to let their guard down.

Ethan J. Kytle August 17, 2020 coronavirus, Dispatches from Fresno, Fresno, healthcare, public history

Teaching During the Pandemic

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Historian Joshua Freeman discusses the strange and poignant experience of teaching his final semester under the pall of COVID.

Joshua B. Freeman August 12, 2020 coronavirus, Education, labor, New York, teaching

A Year of Snow Days

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After the Lost Weekend of Spring 2020, American teachers, students, and parents look ahead to a period of prolonged and agonizing uncertainty.

Alex Sayf Cummings August 10, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, coronavirus, Education, the South

A Screaming Comes Across the Sky: Re-Reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow

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Writer Murray Browne looks back at Pynchon’s novel, once heralded by critics as “bonecrushingly dense,” in light of the age of Qanon.

Murray Browne August 10, 2020 Cold War, dog days classics, fiction, World War II

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