In the 1979 cult classic The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, a down-on-their-luck basketball team called the Pittsburgh Pythons is desperate for a change of fortune. They lose constantly, despite being led by the legendary Julius “Dr. J” Erving, and in a strange twist they turn to an astrologer (Stockard Channing) for help…
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Pandemic life has shown us that loneliness and togetherness are closer to each other than we once thought.
Why do we talk about “reopening” the economy, as if it were a bodega or a Bennigan’s? Americans trip over political metaphors yet again.
Gaston Bachelard’s 1958 classic The Poetics of Space offers a fresh way of thinking about our increasingly cloistered existences.
White men — what are they thinking? What do they think about what they think? Is it good to write thinkpieces on thinking about how white men think?
What a week. America saw two great injustices visited on the undeserving among us: Mexican businessman Joaquín “El Chapo” […]
Cockpunches. Octopuses and otters. Shoe polish. Minnesota Mean. What the fuck is happening?
It’s that time of year when people in the world of academia remember what the word “anticlimactic” really means. All this building tension over the course of the semester, and then when it reaches its seeming crescendo in early December — splat.