The more Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece is regarded, the more it seems to vanish in the spectacle of its acclaim.
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Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 short story “Nevsky Prospect” opens with a paean to the vivacity of life on its titular street.
Will Greer discusses the most epic fast-food quest since Harold & Kumar went to Arby’s.
When seen simply as a stream of incoming sales data, Atlanta can look like a city rising up or population left behind, depending on your point of view.
A week of truly epic, virtuosic horse-shit reached its tragic crescendo today, with the murder of at least […]
It has been over thirty years since Joan C. Scott let the historical profession know that gender is a “useful category of analysis.” (How many academic journal articles get their own Wikipedia page? Not many I assume.)
Cockpunches. Octopuses and otters. Shoe polish. Minnesota Mean. What the fuck is happening?
But whatever a gift is and however we define it, we tend to think that we know what it is. We assume that when you or I say “gift” we are talking about the same thing—that what we mean is a given.